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>For immediate release - 26/10/2009 17:33:46

>WCC CONGRATULATES LWF GENERAL SECRETARY-ELECT

The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia  has congratulated Rev. Martin Junge on his election as general secretary  of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF). Expressing "joy and encouragement"  at the election of the Chilean theologian to the LWF's chief executive  post, Kobia called him a "champion of lively partnerships in the quest for  Christian unity and the building of human community".

Elected on 26 October as the eighth LWF general secretary by the organizati on's Council, Junge, a 48-year old pastor from Chile, became the first  representative from the Latin America and Caribbean region to hold that  position. He will succeed Rev. Dr Ishmael Noko, who is planning to leave  office at the end of October 2010.

>Full text of the congratulatory letter:
>http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=7266

Lutheran World Federation:

http://www.lutheranworld.org/News/LWI/EN/2425.EN.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.