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In a world full of violence and hate, there is no greater mission than "saving God's children from the scourge of war," a former U.N. official said to thousands of Christian leaders at the World Council of Churches' 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Five years after the World Council of Churches (WCC) launched its Decade to Overcome Violence participants at the 9th Assembly have paused to mark the midpoint, reviewing what has occurred so far and looking to what can yet come.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (2/18/06) — The U.S. Conference for the World Council of Churches (WCC) issued a statement today to the WCC 9th Assembly acknowledging that they are part of a nation "that has done much in these years to endanger the human family and to abuse the creation," and confessing that they have failed to raise a voice loud enough to stop it.

"God has given us the gift of life and we have abused it." These words are from the report by Dr. Samuel Kobia, Secretary General of the World Council of Churches (WCC), to the gathered delegates of the ninth General Assembly that opened on February 14 in Porto Alegre, Brazil with the theme "God, in your grace, transform the world."

At a moment when war, violence and poverty engulf much of the world, and when the vision of church unity seems uncertain at best and fading for many, the World Council of Churches is boldly asking God to "transform the world."

At a moment when war, violence and poverty engulf much of the world, and when the vision of church unity seems uncertain at best and fading for many, the World Council of Churches is boldly asking God to "transform the world."