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For immediate release - 09/12/2009 15:34:10

"THE GREATEST PRIVILEGE AN INDIVIDUAL COULD EVER HAVE"

In a 10-minute interview available online at the website of the
World Council of Churches (WCC) the Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia reflects
on his six-year term as the general secretary of the WCC – the
broadest and most inclusive organized expression of the
ecumenical movement. 

Good and not so good memories, encouraging experiences, progress
and challenges of the ecumenical movement are addressed by Kobia.
He also speaks of his hopes and dreams for the future of
Christian unity, and what being the WCC general secretary meant
to him: "the greatest privilege an individual could ever have". 

>Watch the interview:
>http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=7425

Download the transcript of the interview:

http://www.oikoumene.org/fileadmin/files/wcc-main/2009pdfs/Kobia%20video%20interview%20transcript%20En.pdf

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.