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...This conference can be either a Babel or another Pentecost," said Evangelist Billy Graham. Said General Secretary Willem A. Visser 't Hooft: "We have arrived at one of those decisive moments in the history of the church of Christ...
...challenge that faced them, said the World Council's General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft, was to "make the church relevant to the world of today.'' They set about it with well-oiled organization, split up into 60 international and interdenominational discussion groups, had time left over for sightseeing and miscellaneous frolics; the French contingent startled W.C.C. officials by electing a Swedish sex kitten "Miss Ecumenia.'' In a gesture of harmony, the Roman Catholic bishop of Geneva and Lausanne sent five observers to the assembly, and a special Mass was celebrated in Lausanne invoking...
...makeup of the World Council's delegation to Russia was well designed to disprove any lingering notions Moscow's Patriarch Alexis might have that the W.C.C. was "a political tool of Western imperialism." Under the leadership of World Council General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft (Dutch Reformed), the delegation consisted of: British Anglican Francis House; U.S. Lutheran Dr. O. Frederick Nolde, director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on International Affairs; Greek Orthodox Dr. Nick Nissiotis; and Burma Baptist U Kyaw Than, administrative secretary of the East Asia Christian Conference...
Back in Geneva and jaunty in a Russian fur hat. Secretary Visser 't Hooft last week described the "songs and shouts of welcome, the waving of handkerchiefs, and the joy of being with Christians of other churches, the sincere desire for closer contacts with those from other lands." How was Christianity doing? Orthodox leaders estimated church membership at about 25 million (total pop. 208,826,000), and the theological seminaries were well-filled with high-caliber students. Congregations are surprisingly large (as many as 10,000 in one service at Leningrad), but the question is how long they will...
Truths for Troubled Times. Church leaders are under close supervision by officials of the Soviet Government's Council for Religious Affairs. "These are full-blooded Marxists, of course," said Visser 't Hooft. "But some of these atheist supervisors have developed a real liking for their job and show a deep interest in church affairs and history. After all, there may be found in England and Sweden and elsewhere government functionaries in charge of church affairs who are agnostics as well...