{"id":34726,"date":"2012-09-24T00:18:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wcc_general_secretary-european_churches_are_called_to_confront_current_fin\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T00:18:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T00:18:12","slug":"wcc_general_secretary-european_churches_are_called_to_confront_current_fin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34726","title":{"rendered":"WCC General Secretary&#8211;European churches are called to confront current financial crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing the European churches\u2019 \u201cstrong commitment over the past century to the ecumenical movement and fellowship in Europe,\u201d\u009d WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit urged their direct engagement in the current financial and social crisis in and beyond Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Their past commitment \u201chas changed the realities of Europe. It has borne much fruit on other continents. That can, and should, happen again,\u201d\u009d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Tveit shared this message at the General Assembly of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) on 21 September in Florence, Italy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/en\/news\/news-management\/eng\/a\/article\/1634\/european-churches-called.html\">Read it all<\/a> and note the link to the full text of his remarks at the bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing the European churches\u2019 \u201cstrong commitment over the past century to the ecumenical movement and fellowship in Europe,\u201d\u009d WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit urged their direct engagement in the current financial and social crisis in and beyond<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34726\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,42,460,582,589,595,592,149,158,168,591,200,590,184,108,585,596,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-ecumenical-relations","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}