Religion no barrier for WCC tsunami relief project.Edavanakad, India The head of the World Council of Churches (WCC WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → COE m (Conseil œcuménique des Églises) WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → Weltkirchenrat m ) has concluded a visit to India by laying the foundations for a disaster shelter and community centre at a Muslim-majority village in southern India hit by the December 2005 tsunami. "Let me assure you that religion or ideology or ethnicity will never be a consideration for us to be in solidarity with you," Rev. Samuel Kobia Samuel Kobia (born March 20 1947 in Miathene, Meru, Kenya), a Methodist clergy, was elected General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in August 2003, and took up his new post in January 2004. , WCC genera/secretary, told the people of the Edavanakad fishing village who attended the Feb. 20 ceremony. The multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective disaster shelter is being built by the Churches Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA Ca´sa n. 1. A house or mansion. I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa, and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance. - Bret Harte. ), the social welfare wing of 24 Protestant and Orthodox churches in India. "God sends his angels in times of disasters. These are the angels God sent to us when we stood stunned unable to decide what to do next," said V. K. Equbal, the Muslim village council president, with his gaze directed towards the Christian dignitaries on the platform. CASA, with the support of Geneva-based Action by Churches Together (ACT) International (which is supported by the Anglican Church of Canada), has already built 85 disaster-resistant houses in the village where most of the 200 dwellings were swept away by the earthquake-triggered tsunami that wreaked havoc, in south and southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. . Ecumenical News International |
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