Below is a list of WCC press releases, subsequent updates and features issued in 1999. Just click on the item you want to read. Most of these items were also distributed en français auf Deutsch and en español. Please contact Karin Achtelstetter, Media Relations Officer, for further information.

You might be interested in the press releases issued during the 1999 central committee, held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 28 August to 3 September 1999. You might also be interested in the press releases issued during the WCC's eighth assembly, held in Harare, Zimbabwe, from 3 to 14 December 1998.

• Call to join Africa day of prayer. (13.12.99)
  • Update: Prayer for the children of Sierra Leone on Christmas Day. (22.12.99)
• WCC and CEC denounce church destruction. (10.12.99)
• WCC general secretary Konrad Raiser to meet Kofi Annan. (10.12.99)
• WCC Special Fund to Combat Racism - 21 projects receive grants. (9.12.99)
• Inaugural meeting of the Special Commission on Orthodox participation in the WCC. (3.12.99)
  • Update: Special Commission holds first meeting, plans work for 2000. (9.12.99)
• WCC supports millennium cyber chain for peace and reunification. (1.12.99)
• WCC general secretary calls for a critical re-assessment of the cold-war period. (22.11.99)
• 1999 Christmas Message, by WCC general secretary Konrad Raiser. (19.11.99)
• On the tenth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution: The general secretary of the WCC visits the Czech churches. (16.11.99)
• WCC and CEC deplore "irresponsible" Russian military intervention. (16.11.99).
  • Update: Russian military ultimatum is "unacceptable" says WCC and CEC. (10.12.99)
• Round table meeting with churches from Indonesia and East Timor. (15.11.99).
• WCC welcomes signing of Joint Declaration. (28.10.99)
• $15 Million Gift to the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey. (26.10.99)
• WCC general secretary begins visit to hurricane-ravaged Honduras. (22.10.99)
  • Update: Mitch revealed injustice, WCC general secretary declares during visit to Honduras. (25.10.99)
  • Update: One year after hurricane, WCC general secretary tells Honduran president there's reason to celebrate. (28.10.99)
• Tribute to Julius Nyerere. (15.10.99)
  
• World ecumenical leaders meet with Fidel Castro. (13.10.99)
  
• WCC Christian-Muslim consultation focuses on religious freedom. (12.10.99)
  • Issue of proselytism challenges Christian-Muslim consultation on religious freedom. (21.10.99)
• A sign of ecumenical solidarity - WCC general secretary visits Cuba, Haiti, Costa Rica and Honduras. (8.10.99)
  • Update: Ecumenical delegation notes "abundant solidarity" in Cuba. (18.10.99)
  • Update: Ecumenical leaders told Cuba's growing churches face new challenges. (14.10.99)
  • Update: Cuba is first stop on ecumenical visit to Latin America and Caribbean. (12.10.99)
• Staff news. (29.9.99)
  
• WCC mourns loss of church leader shot in East Timor (14.9.99)
  
  • Update: Confirmation that Rev. Francisco de Vasconcelos is alive (14.10.99)
• Central Committee press releases. (26 August to 3 September)
  
• Geneva, an international meeting-point as WCC Central Committee meets. (18.8.99)
  
• Churches in the Democratic Republic of Congo expect the WCC's cooperation in work for peace. (13.7.99)
  
• Sudan Ecumenical Forum appeals on Sudan peace negotiations. (8.7.99)
  
• WCC appeals to Turkish president to commute death sentence of Abdullah Ocalan. (2.7.99)
  
• Georges Tstetsis leaves the WCC after more than 30 years of ecumenical service. (1.7.99)
  
• His Holiness Karekin I (1932-1999). (30.6.99)
  
• WCC general secretary to visit the Democratic Republic of Congo: How can the churches help settle the conflict? (30.6.99)
  
• WCC Faith and Order Commission wrestles with fundamental ecumenical issues. (16.6.99)
  • Update: Faith and Order Commission ponders its role in reorganized WCC. (22.6.99)
• International church bodies welcome end to Kosovo war. (11.6.99)
  • Update: Ecumenical delegation to Kosovo. (2.7.99)
  • Update: WCC and CEC appreciate Serbian Orthodox Church appeal. (24.6.99)
• WCC challenges G8 governments to take more radical approach on debt crisis. (9.6.99)
  
• Church leaders meet to discuss churches' response to the Balkan crisis. (21.5.99)
  • Update: Consultation on the churches and the crisis in the Balkans. (27.5.99)
    
• WCC director Myra Blyth first woman appointed to senior staff position in the Baptist Union of Great Britain. (18.5.99)
  
• Call to join the international day prayer and reconciliation on 16 May. (11.5.99)
  • Update: 'Not a religious war!' says ecumenical delegation back from trip to Albania and Macedonia. (28.5.99)
  • Update: Ecumenical delegation visits Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macdeonia. (17.5.99)
• WCC among the founding members of the International Network on Small Arms. (10.5.99)
  • Update: WCC supports micro-disarmament initiatives. (19.5.99)
• Report of ecumenical delegation to Yugoslavia. (3.5.99)
  
• Message of the presidents of the WCC at Pentecost 1999. (April 1999)
  
• WCC calls for the dismantling of nuclear weapons. (23.4.99)
  
• Message of the WCC on the occasion of "Earth Day". (20.4.99)
  
• WCC general secretary to visit North and South Korea. (13.4.99)
  • Update: WCC general secretary's visit to North Korea. (23.4.99)
• Aaron Tolen (1938 - 1999). (7.4.99)
  • Update: A Tribute to Dr Aaron Tolen (7.4.99)
• Easter appeal for a cessation of armed conflicts. (31.3.99)
  • Update: Ecumenical delegation visits Yugoslavia. (16.4.99)
  • Update: Joint statement on the protection of humanitarian principles in Kosovo refugee response. (15.4.99)
• International church bodies call for a halt to the NATO intervention and a return to the negotiating table. (29.3.99)
  
• WCC prepares for the UN Commission on Human Rights (18.3.99)
  • Update: WCC seeks new strategies for future participation at the UN Commission on Human Rights. (30.4.99)
  • Update: WCC Intervention to the UN Commission on Human Rights on Indigenous issues. (19.4.99)
  • Update: WCC intervention to the UN Commission on Human Rights on impunity in Guatemala (13.4.99)
  • Update: Ecumenical organizations make joint intervention to the UN Commission on Human Rights on religious intolerance. (9.4.99)
  • Update: WCC intervention to the 55th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights on Indonesia and Nigeria. (7.4.99)
• Statement on the situation of the Kurdish people and the arrest of Abdullah Ocalan (9.2.99)
  
• International church visit to Indonesia. (9.2.99)
  
  • Update: Ecumenical delegation to Indonesia monitors situation of women and children. (1.7.99)
  • Update: WCC intervention to the 55th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights on Indonesia and Nigeria. (7.4.99)
  • Update: Action regarding Indonesia. (04.3.99)
• Urgent international action needed to stop Congo civil war. (8.2.99)
  
• Church visit to Indonesia. (27.1.99)
  
• Oscar Cullmann (1902 - 1999). (21.1.99)
  
• WCC and Russian Orthodox Church. (15.1.99)
  
• Faith and Order first - plus WCC staff news. (11.1.99)
• WCC statement on the situation in Kosovo. (14.10.98)
  • Update: Pastoral letter to WCC member churches in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (25.3.99)
  • Update: Message to the Conference on Peace and Tolerance in Kosovo. (17.3.99)

WCC Features

• Hurricane Mitch helped ecumenism, WCC general secretary finds in visit to Hoduras. (1.11.99)
  
• New opportunities and risks for Cuba's churches. (20.10.99)
  
• Record growth and significant changes at Cuban evangelical seminary. (20.10.99)
  
• Stewards who serve 'today' may return as archbishops 'tomorrow'. (1.9.99)
  
• Youngest World Council president has come of age in ecumenical movement. (31.8.99)
  
• Is the ecumenical movement still alive? -- A 'Padare? discussion. (27.8.99)
  
• "Offering hope in the midst of despair": The Orthodox Church of Albania gives humanitarian aid. (16.6.99)
  
• Expelled and bewildered. By Nils Carstensen, 11 April 1999, Kukes, Albania. (15.4.99)
  
• Two Easters? Towards a common date for Easter. (7.4.99)

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