—[Dr. Ralph Colas, executive secretary of the American Council of Christian Churches, attended the August 26 - September 3 50th Meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland. Below are a few excerpts from the first draft of his Special Report, available soon from: ACCC, P.O. Box 5455, Bethlehem, PA 18015.] The WCC continues it's "courting process" to bring "people of other faiths" under its umbrella. Its ecumenical machine is in high gear as it embraces gullible evangelicals and their entities. George Vandervelde, a leader in the World Evangelical Fellowship, was a major speaker at the WCC's 50th Assembly, Dec. 1998, in Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa. It appears his participation has been rewarded by being given a position serving on WCC's Commission on World Missions and Evangelism. (The WEF claims to represent 200 million evangelicals in 600,000 churches.) The WCC leadership also extended an "olive branch" to Rev. Kurt Bangert of the Lutheran Church in Germany, World Vision's official representative at this WCC's Geneva meeting. (WV is an EFMA member with a relief ministry in over 90 countries.) Bangert said he had an unusual private meeting with the WCC's Gen. Sec'y, Dr. Konrad Raiser. Numerous Roman Catholic leaders are serving on various WCC Commissions and Committees and the WCC is opening up to the Roman Catholic Church as well as developing further relationships with Pentecostal and Evangelical groups with a new dynamos of dialogue.

—During the 1970s and 1980s the World Council of Churches' Special Fund to Combat Racism made grants totaling some $4 million to armed insurgent forces in southern Africa that were Marxist-Leninist or heavily influenced by Communism (8/99 Schwarz Report). South Africa's African National Congress government (headed by Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki) is run by Marxists, strongly affiliated with the South African Communist Party but presented by our media as moderates. Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe addressed/praised (12/8/98) the WCC Assembly in Harare for having supported his armed [Marxist] revolution. The WCC hypocritically says it opposes violence. It meets in Atlanta Dec. 9-11 on a theme of reconciliation, with Archbishop Desmond Tutu as a major speaker. Rev. Kathryn Bannister, 29, one of the WCC's eight presidents, will be installed as moderator of the U.S. conference. Ecumenical worship and prayer are planned.

COLD WAR STUDY CLAIMS WORLD COUNCIL OF

CHURCHES WAS 'INFILTRATED' BY COMMUNIST AGENTS.

Geneva (ENI 2.2.2000). The World Council of Churches (WCC) was"infiltrated" by agents of eastern European intelligence agencies during the Cold War a book recently published in Germany has alleged. But a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church has completely rejected an allegation in the book that a prominent Russian churchman, now dead, worked for the KGB. A spokesperson for the WCC said that the authors of the book had not done
justice to the extensive body of source material made available to them by the WCC, and said that its interpretation of WCC documents remained trapped in a Cold War mentality. [ ENI-00-0031]