WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
200 To Meet In Mexico City
The first full meeting of the commission on world mission and evangelism of the World Council of Churches will meet in Mexico City on December 8 to December 20.
The general theme for the | meeting is "God's Mission and Our Task." About 200 persons from six continents are expected to attend the meet- , ing, w’hich will be held at ' the Union Theological Sem- | inary and at the Methodist I girls' school. Members are appointed by i the national Christian coun- ' cils affiliated with the comi mission and by the central committee of the World Council of Churches. Advisers, observers from other world Christian bodies, youth delegates, and staff will also i attend
f* The meeting in Mexico will "not only represent six continents. but it will face six continents.” the conference planners say. “It will be concerned as much with the witness of the Christian church iin Detroit as in Dahomey, as much with pagans in Europe as with pagans in ' New Guinea.”
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30269, 23 October 1963, Page 11
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