wfn.org | Corrigendum to POV press release

[Sheila MESA <smm@wcc-coe.org>]

World Council of Churches
Press Release
For Immediate Use
2 September 1997

CORRIGENDUM

Re. our press release dated 1 September 1997 DON'T BACK VIOLENCE,
WCC GENERAL SECRETARY TELLS CHURCHES

Paragraph nine: spelling of name of keynote speaker is Rev Jeffrey
Brown and he is from  Boston (NOT Chicago).

Also, please add the following as the penultimate paragraph of the
release:

Rubem Cesar Fernandez from Rio de Janeiro invited the world to stand
still and be silent for 3 minutes in May 1999 "to stop and think and give
peace a chance".  Commenting later on the launch event, Salpy Eskidjian,
coordinator of the Programme to Overcome Violence said, "I was greatly
impressed that the South African churches used the occasion to
celebrate so vibrantly this call against violence and for peace".

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