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For immediate release - 28/08/2009 15:27:35

RECORDING OF PRESS CONFERENCE WITH WCC GENERAL SECRETARY-ELECT

>AVAILABLE

An MP3 file with the audio (approx. length: 40 minutes; size:
45Mb) of the first press conference given by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse
Tveit is available for downloading at:
http://www2.wcc-coe.org/uploads.nsf/3aab8c2fafb3cc22c1256f0e004da00e/22119f07d42d9e4bc125762000493476?OpenDocument

>He speaks in English about his vision of: 
>The WCC mission 
>Interchurch solidarity 
>Relations with Islam 
>Relations with churches non members of the WCC fellowship 
>Justice, climate change, poverty

Free of charge high resolution photos are available (please
credit Peter Williams/WCC):
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/news/photo-galleries/central-committee-2009/general-secretary-elect.html

Press releases on the election of Dr Tveit as WCC general
secretary

English

http://www.oikoumene.org/en/events-sections/cc2009/central-committee-news/en/article/6747/olav-fykse-tveit-elected.html

Deutsch

http://www.oikoumene.org/de/events-sections/cc2009/1/ge/article/6747/olav-fykse-tveit-zum-oerk.html

Français

http://www.oikoumene.org/fr/events-sections/cc2009/nouvelles-du-comite-central/fr/article/6747/olav-fykse-tveit-est-elu.html

Castellano

http://www.oikoumene.org/es/events-sections/cc2009/noticias-del-comite-central/sp/article/6747/olav-fykse-tveit-electo-s.html

Additional information:Juan Michel,+41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507
6363media@wcc-coe.org

The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith,
witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical
fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings
together 349 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches
representing more than 560 million Christians in over 110
countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic
Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, from
the Methodist Church in Kenya. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.