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On the Festival...

No. 1: Ecumenical Decade Festival begins in Harare (27.11.98)
No. 2: Violence against women in the church acknowledged with liturgy and tears (28.11.98)
No. 3: Eminent women church leaders look beyond the Decade Festival - Part I (1.12.98)
No. 4 Festival Participants have long memories of other decades in the ecumenical movement - Part II (1.12.98)
No. 5 Ecumenical Decade Festival concludes with challenge to upcoming WCC Assembly (1.12.98)

On the Pre-Assembly Youth Event (PAYE)

No. 1: Pre-assembly youth gathering calls for WCC youth president (1.12.98)

On the Assembly

No. 2: World churches meet at foot of Africa's cross (3.12.98)
No. 3: Help us to regain our land (3.12.98)
No. 4: Profiteering versus prophecy (4.12.98)
No. 5: Moderator calls for violators of human rights to be brought to justic (4.12.98)
No. 6: WCC general secretary proposes new deal for Orthodox churches (4.12.98)
No. 7: Churches challenged to promote human rights education (5.12.98)
No. 8: Cancellation of debt should include dialogue, WCC leaders tell journalists (5.12.98)
No. 9: New admissions take WCC member churches to record level (5.12.98)
No. 10: Nations "must stop the slaughter in Sudan" (5.12.98)
No. 11: Praise and pomp at Zimbabwean churches celebration (6.12.98)
No. 12: WCC worshippers revel in Zimbabwe's raindbow of worship (6.12.98)
No. 13: Of unity in the new millennium (6.12.98)
No. 14: "Journalists have blood on their hands" -- Indigenous leader (6.12.98)
No. 15: Leading ecumenist dies (7.12.98)
No. 16: WCC Assembly debates role of women (7.12.98)
No. 17: Delegates attend Hearings (7.12.98)
No. 18: Media person preaches to WCC (8.12.98)
No. 19: Women and youth demand bigger role in WCC (8.12.98)
No. 20: Mugabe makes passionate appeal to WCC to help to create a fair world (8.12.98)
No. 21: Roman Catholic observer does not rule out future WCC membership for his church (8.12.98)
No. 22: World churches sway to African rhythms (9.12.98)
No. 23: African theologian questions depth of the continent's Christianity (9.12.98)
No. 24: CNN official defends international coverage (9.12.98)
No. 25: Special Fund grants 1998 (9.12.98)
No. 26: Differently-abled Padare features drama and discussion (9.12.98)
No. 27: Orthodox Church scholar says its criticisms of WCC are mistaken (10.12.98)
Mo. 28: Churches urged to campaign for return to state-controlled economies
No. 29: Schoolboy calls on churches to save oppressed children
No. 30: Gay Christians want sexuality studies in theological colleges
No. 31: Children who face the choice: work or die
No. 32: Orthodox and Evangelicals: a love story
No. 33: Zimbabwean men and the gender struggle
No. 34: "WCC must not be party to conspiracy of silence on genocide"
No. 35: Pinochet extradition decision hailed
No. 36: Churches urged to enter new millennium in an African spirit
No. 37: A Muslim messenger at the Assembly (11.12.98)
No. 38: Legal question postpones final resolution of Celestial Church membership in WCC (11.12.98)
No. 39: WCC Assembly elects Central Committee after sparring over gender and age balance (11.12.98)
No. 40: Assembly wants more churches to pay minimum fee (11.12.98)
No. 41: Polite applause, yawns and compaints greet first reading of Assembly message 11.12.98)
No. 42: Churches to issue declarations on human rights and Jerusalem (12.12.98)
No. 43: Boy soldiers forced to kill parents, churches told (12.12.98)
No. 44: WCC vows to share Africa's vision and tasks (13.12.98)
No. 45: WCC to set up commission on participation of Orthodox churches (13.12.98)
No. 46: WCC protests to Sudan over bombing of guest bishop's cathedral (13.12.98)
No. 47: Bulgarian Orthodox Church (13.12.98)
No. 48: Crisis or Christ, Archbishop Carey asks Harare congregation (13.12.98)
No. 49: WCC'S new central committee elects officers and executive committee (13.12.98)
No. 50: Mandela addresses WCC's Eighth Assembly (14.12.98)
No. 51: Church leaders exchange crosses to renew unity vows (14.12.98)
No. 52: WCC past and future honoured at 50th anniversary celebration (14.12.98)
No. 53: WCC presidents elected (14.12.98)
No. 54: WCC gives a message of hope (14.12.98)
No. 55: Assembly statue and symbol donated to councils (15.12.98)
No. 56: Assembly statements on world affairs (15.12.98)
No. 57: "Together, under the cross in Africa", Eighth Assembly comes to a close (15.12.98)