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World Council of Churches
News Flash NF-03-01
For Immediate Use
7 February 2003

WCC: Letter to Shevardnadze

The World Council of Churches (WCC) on 6 February wrote to Eduard
Shevardnadze, appealing to the Georgian president to bring to justice those
responsible for "violent attacks against those peacefully gathering to mark
the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in the Central Baptist Church in
Tbilisi on 24 January".

The full text of the letter is on our website:
http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/international/georgia-letter.html

For further information, please contact the Media Relations Office,  
tel: +41 (0)22 791 64 21 / (41 22) 791 61 53

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Konrad Raiser from the Evangelical Church in Germany.

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