• WCC assembly's opening shows diversity of the worldwide church
  
• Attendance at WCC assembly swells to 5000
  
• Eighth assembly signals 'turning point' in life of World Council of Churches
  
• Church leader tells religions to seek common ethics for a troubled world
  
• WCC assembly to consider creation of forum for all Christian churches
  
• WCC's financial crisis is over, says finance official
  
• WCC delays decision on membership for church with polygamous clergy
  
• Harare liturgy marks growth of Orthodox Church in Africa
  
• Russian official tells WCC it must reform to retain its Orthodox members
  
• 550 events at WCC's Padare offer glimpses of church activities world-wide
  
• Churches urged to repent of 'sin' of violence against women
  
• Korea's controversial feminist theologian has 'no regrets'
  
• Mugabe says homosexuals should be 'cured' by the church
  
• Mugabe challenges churches over confiscation of farms owned by whites
  
• Raiser raises possibility of women's ordination in Orthodox churches
  
• 'Root out corruption to eliminate poverty,' says human rights official
  
• Campaign for debt relief for poor gathers momentum
  
• Trade union leader calls for WCC to condemn Mugabe's ban on strikes
  
• WCC assemblies - J. Robert Nelson has attended all eight of them
  
• Zimbabwean groups march to demand 'human rights for all'
  
• WCC official says Pinochet ruling is 'cause for celebration'
  
• 50 million members and growing - African Instituted Churches
  
• CNN's news coverage of the globe - 'a mile wide and a half-inch deep'
  
• Dutch Christians explain how churches gave full acceptance to gays
  
• WCC churches told to elect more women to governing committee
  
• Gay groups call for churches to put pressure on 'homophobic' Zimbabwe
  
• Accept polygamy as an African tradition, WCC told
  
• The best insurance is prayer, says Sukyo Mahikary devotee
  
• Mandela asks WCC to make Africa's development its next goal
  
• WCC agrees to set up commission to try to resolve Orthodox grievances
  
• Churches recommit themselves to the WCC at worship celebration
  
• Zimbabwe Kairos document dares to condemn corruption and inequality
  
• WCC assembly recommits itself to 'African dream'
  
• On its last frantic day, WCC assembly approves string of major resolutions
  

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