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World Council of Churches - News Release

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For immediate release - 13.12.2009 18:00:00

MP3s OF PRESS CONFERENCE, SIGNATURES HANDOVER WITH DESMOND TUTU
IN COPENHAGEN

An MP3 audio file (approx. length: 39 minutes; size: 35.5 MB) of
the press conference given at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen
by Archbishop (emeritus) Desmond Tutu and others on Sunday, 13
December is available for downloading: 

>http://bit.ly/DesmondTutuPressConfCOP15

Press conference's subject: Beyond politics and business -
Climate change from a religious and ethical perspective.
Christian leaders urge world leaders to agree on a fair,
effective and binding climate deal that put the needs of the poor
first. 

>Speakers:

>- Rev. Samuel Kobia (moderator)

General secretary, World Council of Churches, Switzerland
- Archbishop (emeritus) Desmond Tutu

Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1984 and anti-apartheid champion
- Bishop Sofie Petersen

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark, Greenland
- Rev. Tofiga Falani

President, Congregational Christian Church of Tuvalu, Tuvalu

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU HANDS OVER TO U.N. CLIMATE CHIEF YVO DE
BOER HALF A MILLION SIGNATURES FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE

An MP3 file with the audio (approx. length: 16 minutes; size: 15
MB) of Tutu’s and De Boer’s speeches is available for
downloading:

>http://bit.ly/DesmondTutuAndYvoDeBoerCOP15

>HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOS

Free of charge high resolution pictures (please credit: Peter
Williams/WCC) will shortly be available for downloading at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oikoumene/sets  --> Copenhagen 1 & 2

Additional information: Juan Michel +41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507
6363 media@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.