Documents of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs
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| Title | EffectiveDate | document_type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| WCC appeal to UN on human rights situation in Cameroon | 09 September 2020 | Letter | In a letter to UN officials, World Council of Churches international affairs director Peter Prove urges an end to violence and the violation of human rights in Cameroon. |
| Urgent Appeal about Dr Denis Mukwege, Democratic Republic of the Congo | 07 September 2020 | Letter | Urgent Appeal to UN Special Rapporteurs about Dr Denis Mukwege, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| The Prospective Future of the Korean Peninsula After Peaceful Reunification | 26 May 2020 | Lecture - Speech | Address of WCC director for International Affairs Peter Prove at the event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the May 18 Democratic Uprising, "The Prospective Future of the Korean Peninsula After Peaceful Reunification" |
| Flyer of fourth Webinar on Racism, Xenophobia and discrimination in the African Context | 08 October 2019 | Message | The Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) of the World Council of Churches (WCC) is inviting you to its fourth regional webinar on racism, xenophobia and racial discrimination, which will be focusing this time on Africa. Prof Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, WCC Deputy General Secretary for Public Witness and Diakonia, and Mr Masimba Kuchera, CCIA Commissioner will be moderating the webinar. |
| Flyer of third Webinar on Racism, Xenophobia and discrimination in the Caribbean Context | 11 September 2019 | Background document | The Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) of the World Council of Churches (WCC) is inviting you to a webinar on RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND DISCRIMINATION IN THE CARIBBEAN. Rev. Kelli D. Jolly, Itinerant Presbyter at The Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas Bahamas/ Turks and Caicos Islands District, Nassau Circuit of Churches, will moderate the webinar. |
| 2nd Webinar: Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination in North America | 28 August 2019 | Background document | The thematic focus of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace (PJP) in 2019 is Racism.The WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), organises a series of eight WCC CCIA regional expert Webinars on the issue of racism and racial justice from August to December 2019. The aim of the webinars is to explore how racism manifests itself in the respective regions, learn about the work that churches and ecumenical partners are doing in this respect, identify synergies and avenues for possible collaboration. |
| WCC letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on West Bank and East Jerusalem | 08 August 2019 | Letter | WCC letter to Ms. Michelle Bachelet, High Commissioner for Human Rights on Human rights violations in West Bank, East Jerusalem |
| WCC CCIA statement to the UN Human Rights Council 41st Session (Item 7: Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories) | 24 July 2019 | Message | The Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches expressed its grave concern about the high rate of evictions and demolitions in East-Jerusalem. |
| Antisemitism, definitions and future cooperation | 22 July 2019 | Message | Speech by Peter Prove, director of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs at the IJCIC-WCC meeting "The normalization of hatred: Challenges for Jews and Christians today", 25-27 June 2019, Paris |
| Role of the ecumenical community for healing and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula | 07 March 2019 | Lecture - Speech | Presented by Peter Prove at the International Seminar on the Ecumenical Diaconal Ministry of North/South Korea, 4-5 March 2019, Seoul |
| 2018 Global Peace Forum on Korea: Peace and Prosperity for Korea and the World | 04 October 2018 | Lecture - Speech | Keynote address of Peter Prove, Director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches at the 2018 Global Peace Forum on Korea, New York, 29 September 2018 |
| Message from the delegation of the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance to the Churches and People of Nicaragua | 31 August 2018 | Message | “We have sought to support dialogue as a means to resolve differences, and to reaffirm and strengthen calls for justice, peace and respect for diverse ways of thinking in contemporary societies”, reads a message issued by the members of an ecumenical delegation led by the World Council of Churches (WCC) that visited Nicaragua, on 28-29 August 2018. |
| WCC comment on IHRA definition of antisemitism | 30 August 2018 | Message | The World Council of Churches (WCC) regards antisemitism as irreconcilable with the profession and practice of the Christian faith. |
| WCC letter to the Nitijeļā Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs & Trade for the Republic of the Marshall Islands | 04 July 2018 | Letter | Letter to Sen. Maynard Alfred, chairperson of the Nitijeļā Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs & Trade for the Republic of the Marshall Islands from the World Council of Churches on signing and ratifying the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). |
| Message of the WCC CCIA on the nuclear weapon test by North Korea | 04 September 2017 | Message | Message of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs on the nuclear weapon test by North Korea |
| The protection needs of minorities from Syria and Iraq | 28 November 2016 | Report | The protection needs of minorities from Syria and Iraq |
| International Ecumenical Conference on a Peace Treaty for the Korean Peninsula | 17 November 2016 | Message | Communique from the International Ecumenical Conference on a Peace Treaty for the Korean Peninsula, Hong Kong SAR, 14-16 November 2016. |
| Religion and Religious Freedom in International Diplomacy: Workshop Summary Brief | 24 October 2016 | Report | Summary Brief from the Religion and Religious Freedom in International Diplomacy Workshop, UNHRC, 22 September 2016 |
| Public Statement in Support of the Multilateral Negotiation of a Nuclear Weapons Ban in 2017 | 12 October 2016 | Statement: public statement | Submitted to the 2016 UN General Assembly First Committee by Faith Communities Concerned about the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons |
| Freedom of Religion: Documents of the CCIA | 22 September 2016 | Report | Freedom of Religion and Belief: Statements and Issues of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA). To celebrate its 70th anniversary, the WCC-CCIA has compiled a comprehensive anthology of documents pertaining to religious freedom - 550-page collection includes statements, letters, reports and background studies. |
| Human Rights Day 2015 | 10 December 2015 | Statement: public statement | Statement on International Human Rights Day |
| Letter on European refugee situation | 09 September 2015 | Statement: letter | Letter on European refugee situation, jointly issued by the World Council of Churches, the Conference of European Churches and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe. |
| Statement on first Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty | 20 August 2015 | Statement: public statement | Statement on First Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty issued by the WCC international affairs office. |
| Statement of concern over recent protests (against an electoral law) in the Democratic Republic of Congo | 22 January 2015 | Statement: public statement | Statement of concern over recent protests (against an electoral law) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) |
| Oral intervention Special Session on Iraq | 01 September 2014 | Lecture - Speech | Oral intervention - Special Session of the Human Rights Council on the Human Rights Situation in Iraq Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the WCC on 1 September 2014. |
| Statement for UNHRC special session on Iraq | 01 September 2014 | Statement: public statement | Statement by the WCC's Commission of Churches on International Affairs for the UN Human Rights Council's special session on the human rights situation in Iraq, held on 1 September 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland. |
| CCIA reports 2010-13 | 21 August 2014 | Report | This volume contains important documents on the WCC involvement in international affairs through various actions of public witness during the period 2010-2013. |
| CCIA reports 2007-09 | 11 August 2014 | Report | This volume contains important documents on the WCC involvement in international affairs through various actions of public witness during the period 2007-2009. |
| Communiqué on human trafficking | 15 April 2014 | Statement: public statement | Communiqué adopted at an international consultation on “Migration and Human Trafficking: Modern Slavery?” organized by the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs and the Christian Conference of Asia, held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 4 to 8 April. |
| The rule of tyranny and the Reign of God | 26 December 2013 | Message | A Christmas reflection by Bishop Duleep de Chickera, a member of the WCC's Commission of the Churches on International Affairs. |
| International Affairs at the Tenth Assembly | 20 November 2013 | Report | Statements, Minutes and Resolution |
| Communiqué on Asia’s human security challenges | 12 June 2013 | Statement: public statement | Communiqué titled "Seeds of hope for building peace with justice for fullness of life in Asia" produced by the participants of an international consultation on "Asia’s Human Security Challenges: Towards Sustainable Peace with Justice in North East Asia" organized by the CCIA and the Christian Conference of Asia. |
| Communiqué on stateless people | 05 March 2013 | Statement: public statement | Communiqué from consultation on stateless people, “Towards an ecumenical advocacy on the rights of stateless people”held from 27 February to 1 March 2013 in Washington, D.C., United States. |
| Human Rights of Stateless People | 01 March 2013 | Report | Report of the International Consultation "Towards an Ecumenical Advocacy on Rights of Stateless People" |
| Communiqué on peace and human security in Latin America | 06 December 2012 | S | Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) of the World Council of Churches ( WCC) ‘Peace and Human Security in Latin America: Ecumenical Responses’ Communiqué from Antigua, Guatemala, 2nd December 2012 |
| Proceedings of the 51st CCIA meeting | 20 November 2012 | Minutes | Shanghai and Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, 9-16 June 2012 |
| Communique on misuse of blasphemy law in Pakistan | 19 September 2012 | Statement: public statement | Communique on misuse of blasphemy law and rights of religious minorities in Pakistan |
| International Consultation on Ecumenical Advocacy for the Protection of the Human Rights of Migrant Workers in the Arabian Gulf Region | 02 May 2012 | Report | 28 April - 2 May 2012 Alwaye, India |
| Religious minorities and rights for religious freedom | 02 December 2011 | Statement: public statement | We, the participants of the International Study Consultation on Freedom of Religion and the Rights of Religious Minorities - drawn from churches, church related organisations, academia, civil society and human rights organisations and the legal profession in 23 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas and Europe - met in Istanbul, Turkey as part of an international study consultation organised by the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches. The Consultation analysed the situations of rights of religious minorities and freedom of religion in various contexts. |
| Social Justice and Common Goods - Policy Paper | 22 March 2011 | Policy document | Policy Paper by the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, Working Group on Social Justice and Common Goods. |
| UNAW Report 2009 Annex III: Prayer Resources | 14 May 2010 | Liturgical text | United Nations Advocacy Week Opening Prayer, Monday Morning Prayer: Climate Displaced Peoples, Tuesday Morning Prayer: Indigenous Peoples Rights, Wednesday Morning Prayer: Colombia, Thursday Morning Prayer, Closing Prayer |
| UNAW Report 2009 Annex II: Speaker Presentations, Section B | 14 May 2010 | Report | Climate Displaced Peoples Session, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Session, Colombia Session, Closing Keynote: theologian and activist |
| UNAW Report 2009 Annex II: Speaker Presentations, Section A | 14 May 2010 | Report | Keynote II: Charge and Challenge to the Churches the Churches; Thematic Priority I: Climate Displaced Peoples. |
| UNAW Report 2009 Annex I | 14 May 2010 | Report | United Nations Advocacy Week Planning Team; Schedule-at-a-Glance; Annotated Agenda; Programmatic Document; Speaker Biographies; Participant Analysis; Participants Info List; Participant Evaluations |
| Report: Churches Together to Transform the World | 14 May 2010 | Report | The CCIA convened its 5th United Nations Advocacy Week (UNAW) on 15-20 November 2009 in New York City. |
| Turkey - Appeal to commute the death sentence of Abdullah Ocalan | 02 July 2009 | S | |
| Report of the March 2009 CCIA meeting | 19 June 2009 | R | The second meeting of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), following the 2006 Porto Alegre Assembly took place in Cuba from 15-20 March 2009. |
| UNAW Report 2008 Annex IV: Prayer resources | 23 January 2009 | Liturgical text | Climate change Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) Human rights Migration Public witness: addressing power, affirming peace United Nations |
| UNAW Report 2008 Annex II | 23 January 2009 | Report | United Nations Advocacy Week 2008 speaker presentations: Our Common Strategic Global Ecumenical Advocacy, Public Witness Advocacy, Human Rights, Climate Change |
| UNAW Report 2008 Annex I | 23 January 2009 | Report | United Nations Advocacy Week 2008 planning team, additions to UNAW 2008, agenda, speaker biographies, participant analysis, participant list, participants evaluation. |
| UNAW 2008 Report | 23 January 2009 | Report | The United Nations Advocacy Week 2008 Report is a reminder of what was discussed and experienced at the UNAW and one of the key instruments to be used in local and global advocacy work. |
| UNAW 2007 Report | 01 January 2008 | Report | For the United Nations Advocacy Week 2007, the WCC chose to emphasize four themes, a primary focus on the Greater Horn of Africa; water, nuclear disarmament and the Middle East, with an emphasis on Palestine and Israel. |
| "Week of Impunity" in the Middle East | 14 December 2006 | Statement: public statement | WCC calls international attention to situation in the Middle East |
| North Korean government's test of a nuclear device | 27 November 2006 | Statement: letter | Letter to the WCC member churches, regional ecumenical organizations, national councils of churches and CCIA Commission |
| Fr Boulos Iskander | 17 October 2006 | P | |
| Condolences on death of Fr Boulos Iskander | 17 October 2006 | T | |
| Initiative for a resolution to move forward on nuclear disarmament | 08 February 2006 | Statement: letter | Letter to Ambassador Rosemary Banks, Permanent Mission of New Zealand to the United Nations |
| Congratulations on presidential election | 20 January 2006 | S | |
| Reiteration of concern at declarations by Iranian President | 22 December 2005 | S | |
| Call for the Release of Peace Workers in Iraq | 05 December 2005 | S | |
| Call for Solidarity and Action: If one member suffers, all suffer together | 10 November 2005 | Statement: letter | Open letter by the CCIA director on political upheaval following the contested Ethiopian election of 15 May 2005 |
| Security for refugees and asylum seekers | 28 October 2005 | S | |
| Award of 2005 Nobel Peace Prize | 07 October 2005 | S | |
| Theological Consultation on the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme | 28 September 2005 | L | |
| Background Information to Evaluate the Gaza Pullout | 22 August 2005 | B | |
| An appeal on the crisis in Ethiopia | 10 June 2005 | S | |
| Open Letter on the Status of Jerusalem | 31 March 2005 | S | Expressing alarm about new political developments which adversely affect the status of Jerusalem, the director of the WCC's Commission of the Churches on International Affairs issued an open letter reiterating the position of its member churches and calling for "an open and inclusive Jerusalem, a city of shared sovereignty and citizenship, a city of two peoples and three faiths, of Christians, Muslims and Jews". |
| The WCC concern for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation | 12 March 2005 | Lecture - Speech | Presentation by Peter Weiderud, Director, CCIA, at the Advocacy Days of the churches in the United States, Washington D.C. |
| Seminar on UN Reform and Civil Society, Stockholm, Sweden | 15 January 2005 | L | |
| Condolences on the death of President Yasser Arafat | 11 November 2004 | T | |
| Expression of concern on arbitrary arrest of executive director of People's | 12 October 2004 | S | |
| Appeal for peace and reconciliation in the Korean peninsula | 10 September 2004 | S | |
| Appeal for security and human rights of the director of the Justice and Life | 27 August 2004 | S | |
| Expression of sympathy for the victims of Hurricane Charley | 26 August 2004 | S | |
| Expression of concern on infringements of freedom of expression | 06 August 2004 | S | |
| Expression of concern on arrest of church leaders | 14 June 2004 | S | |
| Question of Religious Intolerance: Pakistan, Indonesia | 23 April 2004 | S | |
| Religion and Ethnicity: Gift from God or Source of Conflict? | 16 April 2004 | L | |
| Comments on the killing of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin | 25 March 2004 | S | |
| Letter to Madam Justice Louise Arbour on the occasion of her appointment | 03 March 2004 | M | |
| Expression of concern on tensions in the Korean peninsula | 15 January 2004 | S | |
| Religious Freedom and Liberty in the Emerging Context | 18 December 2003 | S | |
| The collaboration of the WCC with International Governmental Institutions | 22 November 2003 | A | |
| Deteriorating law and order situation in Zimbabwe | 27 October 2003 | S | |
| Religious freedom and liberty in Eritrea | 23 June 2003 | S | |
| Expression of concern on rights of minority churches in Georgia | 06 February 2003 | S | |
| Appeal for peaceful resolution of confrontation in Venezuela | 20 January 2003 | S | |
| Appreciation of decision to commute the death sentence | 17 January 2003 | S | |
| Liberia - Appeal for the release of human rights defender | 22 November 2002 | S | |
| Appeal on the occasion of the NATO Summit in Prague | 14 November 2002 | Statement: letter | Letter from the CCIA director Peter Weiderud to foreign ministers of the non-nuclear member states of NATO |
| Iraq - Appeal to church leaders in member states of the UN Security Council | 24 October 2002 | S | |
| Message of congratulation on the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) | 07 October 2002 | S | |
| Appeal to the Governments of India and Pakistan for normalization of relations with Pakistan | 07 October 2002 | S | |
| Sudan - Call for respect for the Machakos Protocol and revival of the peace process | 07 October 2002 | S | |
| Iraq - Appeal to the US Government | 19 September 2002 | Statement: letter | Letter to Ambassador Kevin Edward Moley, Permanent Mission of the USA to the UN in Geneva |
| Iraq - Appeal to the governments of China, France, Russia and the UK | 19 September 2002 | S | |
| Appeal to Iraq to respect the resolutions of the UN Security Council | 19 September 2002 | S | |
| Report of the XLV meeting of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs | 03 June 2002 | R | |
| Message on the massacre in the church of Bellavista | 10 May 2002 | Pastoral letter | Letter to the churches of Colombia |
| Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Appeal for urgent action | 15 March 2002 | S | |
| Statement on Israel's obligations as occupying power | 05 December 2001 | Statement: public statement | Issued by the CCIA on the occasion of the Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention. |
| Ecumenical Cooperation Forum with Colombia | 25 September 2001 | R | |
| Background paper submitted to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights | 15 August 2001 | Background document | The CCIA, against the background of more than fifty years of work against racism and its effects, notably through the WCC Program to Combat Racism, has submitted comments for consideration in the drafting of the Draft Declaration and Programme of Action. |
| United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects | 16 July 2001 | R | |
| Bangladesh - Expression of condolences after church bombing | 12 June 2001 | S | |
| Palestine - Message of condolences on the death of Faissal Husseini | 06 June 2001 | S | |
| Israel - Expression of condolences to victims of suicide bombing | 06 June 2001 | S | |
| Policy framework and guidelines on small arms and light weapons | 18 May 2001 | P | |
| Resolution on United Nations Relations | 14 May 2001 | P | |
| Report of the XLIV Meeting of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs | 14 May 2001 | R | |
| Argentina - Expression of appreciation for action to overcome impunity | 29 March 2001 | S | |
| Oral intervention on human rights violations in the occupied Arab territories | 28 March 2001 | S | The following is the full text of the intervention made on Wednesday, 28 March, to the 57th Session of the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights, meeting in Geneva, 19 March - 27 April 2001 |
| Justice, Peace and People's Security in North East Asia | 03 March 2001 | Report | Report of the Ecumenical Consultation held in Kyoto, Japan, 26 February - 3 March 2001. |
| Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples | 20 February 2001 | S | |
| Call for investigation into abuses of human rights of migrants in the countries of the Persian Gulf | 24 November 2000 | S | |
| Argentina - Follow-up to the appeal on behalf of the "Prisoners of La Tablada" | 13 November 2000 | S | |
| Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Sharing the land, the truth and the peace | 17 October 2000 | Statement: public statement | Written submission by the CCIA to the Fifth Special Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights devoted to grave and massive violations of the human rights of the Palestinian people by Israel |
| Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - In Pursuit of Lasting Peace with Justice | 17 October 2000 | R | |
| Argentina - Appeal on behalf of the "Prisoners of La Tablada" | 07 July 2000 | S | |
| Indonesia - Appeal for the restoration of law and order in the Malukus | 27 June 2000 | S | |
| Statement on the situation in Sri Lanka | 09 May 2000 | S | |
| Planned visit to Zimbabwe in view of forthcoming elections | 09 May 2000 | S | |
| CCIA granted General Consultative Status with ECOSOC | 03 May 2000 | B | |
| Puerto Rico - Appeal for protection of non-violent protesters on the Island of Vieques | 02 May 2000 | S | |
| Report of the XLIII Meeting of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs | 22 January 2000 | R | |
| Puerto Rico - Appeal for the cessation of US military exercises on the Island of Vieques | 30 November 1999 | S | |
| Indonesia - Protest of travel ban imposed on Central Committee member | 03 September 1999 | S | |
| Brazil - Expression of indignation at court decision to absolve officials charged with responsibility for the massacres of landless peasants | 25 August 1999 | S | |
| Chile - Expression of concern about police intervention in FASIC headquarters | 26 May 1999 | S | |
| Communication to religious leaders in Ethiopia | 13 May 1999 | S | |
| Palestine - Statement of support at the Bethlehem 2000 International Conference | 19 February 1999 | Lecture - Speech | Presentation by the Director of the CCIA to the conference convened at FAO headquarters by the UN Special Committee on Palestine, Rome, 18-19 February 1999. |
| The World Council of Churches' Condemnation of Forced Evictions in | 01 January 1970 | S |
