Minutes of the Fifty-fourth Meeting : Geneva, Switzerland : 15-22 February 2005

Notes: Contents divided into sections: 1. Opening Actions -- 2. Reports of the Moderator and General Secretary -- 3. Applications for Membership -- 4. Finance -- 5. Public Issues -- 6. Preparations for the Ninth Assembly -- 7. Programme Committee -- 8. Plenary Hearing: An Ecumenical Conversation on Contemporary Ethical Challenges : Human Sexuality -- 9. Pacific Plenary -- 10. Plenary of the Reorganization of the Ecumenical Movement -- 11. Report of Policy Reference Committee I -- 12. Report of Policy Reference Committee II -- 13. Report of Policy Reference Committee III -- 14. Staffing -- 15. Introduction of Decision-Making by Consensus -- 16. Reception at the Ecumenical Institute, Bossey -- 17. Dates of Future Meetings -- 18. Closing Actions -- Appendices.; Contents of Public Issues section include: Minute on Israel/Palestine -- Statement on Indigenous Peoples -- Statement on the Tsunami -- Statement on the International Criminal Court -- Statement on Guantanamo Bay -- Statement on Iraq -- Memorandum and Recommendations on Uprooted Peoples.; Appendices include: List of Participants -- Membership of Sub-Committees -- Funds and Reserves Policy -- Recommendations from the Joint Working Group to the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches.

Subjects: World Council of Churches; Middle East - Religious aspects - World Council of Churches; Israel - Religious aspects - World Council of Churches; Palestinian Arabs - Religious aspects - World Council of Churches; Indigenous peoples - Religious aspects - World Council of Churches; Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 - Religious aspects - World Council of Churches; International Criminal Court - Religious aspects; War on Terrorism, 2001 - Religious aspects - World Council of Churches; Political prisoners - United States - Religious aspects - World Council of Churches; Refugees - Religious aspects - World Council of Churches; Homosexuality - Religious aspects - World Council of Churches; Decision making - Religious aspects - World Council of Churches