Two of the most significant recent developments in the life of the World Council ... is organizational: those Protestant Christians who refuse membership in councils of churches—city, state ...

Sixteen years ago this week the World Council of Churches was formally constituted ... who have thus far stayed aloof from inter-church organizational identification (non-aligned religious bodies ...

Supporters of the ecumenical movement that birthed the World Council of Churches in 1948 have generally taken a comparatively positive view of modernity and cultural change; many member churches, for ...

At the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference for the World Council of Churches at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, chairman of the World Council’s central committee (and president ...

In other ways as well, the 701 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox delegates to the World Council of Churches’ Fourth Assembly were exposed last week to an array of provocative ideas. The central ...