wfn.org | Title: Seminar to prepare churches for WSIS

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World Council of Churches 7 Press Info 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 01/12/2003 - info-03-15 

Seminar to prepare churches for World Summit on Information
Society 

The World Council of Churches (WCC), the Lutheran World 
Federation (LWF), the World Association of Christian 
Comunication (WACC), the Catholic Media Council and the 
Centre Catholique International de Genhve (CCIG) will 
co-host a seminar on the World Summit on Information 
Society (WSIS) on 

9 December, 9h00-10h30 
at the Ecumenical Centre 150 route de Ferney, Geneva 

The seminar will serve as an introduction to the summit and to
related 
concerns of the churches and Christian organizations taking
part. 

A pre-WSIS ecumenical information exchange will follow at 11h00,
providing 
a space for the churches to identify core WSIS issues for
participating 
organizations. 

Following the summit, there will be a post-event ecumenical
strategic 
meeting in order to analyze this first phase of the WSIS and
reflect on 
common actions towards the second phase - to be held in Tunis
2005. This 
meeting will take place on 

13 December, 9h30-12h00 
at the Centre Catholique International de Genhve 
Rue de Varembi 1, Geneva 

For more information contact: 
Media Relations Office 
tel: (+41 22) 791 64 21 / (+41 22) 791 61 53 
e-mail:media@wcc-coe.org 
http://www.wcc-coe.org 

The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches, now
342, in 
more than 120 countries in all continents from virtually all
Christian 
traditions. The Roman Catholic Church is not a member church but
works 
cooperatively with the WCC. The highest governing body is the
assembly, 
which meets approximately every seven years. The WCC was
formally 
inaugurated in 1948 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Its staff is
headed by 
general secretary Konrad Raiser from the Evangelical Church in
Germany.