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World Council of Churches - Update
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For immediate release - 28/04/2005

WORLD MISSION CONFERENCE
TO BE BROADCAST LIVE ON THE INTERNET

On 10 May, when 500 delegates from all over the world meet in Athens for
the opening session of the first world mission conference in the 21st
century, many more participants world-wide will be able to join them
online.

It's the first time that all the plenary sessions of a world mission
conference will be broadcast live on the internet. And participation can
go even further: interactive video and chat discussion groups following
each plenary will give people all over the world the possibility to engage
in the dialogue on healing and reconciliation.

Each of the six plenary sessions will focus one of the conference's main
issues: the Holy Spirit, experiences of Christian communities practising
healing, mission and violence (as a Decade to Overcome Violence mid-term
event), healing (looking, for example, at HIV/AIDS as a missiological
challenge), and reconciliation (with case studies from South Africa and
Kiribati).

A detailed schedule of the webcasts and webconferences is available on the
world mission conference website: www.mission2005.org

The 9-16 May Conference on World Mission and Evangelism will gather around
the theme "Come, Holy Spirit, heal and reconcile" and the sub-theme
"Called in Christ to be reconciling and healing communities."

It will offer a unique opportunity for Christians from all continents and
the largest confessional families to exchange experiences and to reflect
on the priorities for mission and the future of Christian witness.

Coming from WCC member churches and the Roman Catholic Church as well as
Pentecostal and Evangelical churches and bodies, the participants include
young people, women and men working at the frontiers of Christian witness,
church and mission leaders, theologians and missiologists.

Find the detailed schedule of the live broadcasts via the internet on the
conference's website:
http://www.mission2005.org/Daily_webcasts.539.0.html

This material may be reprinted freely.

Additional information: Juan Michel,+41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507 6363
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more than 120 countries in all continents from virtually all Christian
traditions. The Roman Catholic Church is not a member church but works
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which meets approximately every seven years. The WCC was formally
inaugurated in 1948 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Its staff is headed by
general secretary Samuel Kobia from the Methodist church in Kenya.