Press briefings

Tuesday, 10 May

Morning coffee break (10:30-11:00) - Press Room
WCC Public Information Team will introduce the responsible staff and the services offered by the conference communications office.
Lunch break (12:30 approximately, for 20 minutes) - Room 101
Samuel Kobia, WCC general secretary, will be available for questions about the ecumenical understanding of mission, healing and reconciliation.

Afternoon coffee break (16:00-16:30) - Room 101
Conference moderators and organisers will answer questions about the aims and meaning of the World Mission Conference.
- Ruth Bottoms, conference moderator, ordained minister within the Baptist Union, UK
- George Mathew, orthodox oriental priest, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, India
- Jacques Matthey, WCC programme staff for Mission and Evangelism, Switzerland
- Beate Fagerli, conference organizer, Switzerland

Wednesday, 11 May

Lunch break (12:30-13:15) - Room 101
Speakers at the plenary session, Called in Christ to be Reconciling and Healing Communities, will be available for questions.
- Samuel Kabue, coordinator of the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network, Kenya
- Athanasios N. Papathanasiou, orthodox eastern theologian, Greece

Dinner break (19:00-19:30) - Room 101
The missionary and diaconal work of the Church of Greece:
- Speakers to be confirmed

Thursday, 12 May

Lunch break (12:30-13:15) - Room 101
Speakers at the plenary session on Mission and Violence (Decade to Overcome Violence) will be available for questions.
- Fernando Enns, ordained mennonite minister, member of DOV Reference Group, Germany
- Tinyiko Maluleke, leading African missiologist from South Africa
- Janet Plenert, Executive Director of International Ministries, Mennonite Church Canada
- Viola Raheb, Lutheran theologian and Christian educator, Palestine

Afternoon coffee break (16:00-16:30) - Room 101
Members of the official Roman Catholic Church delegation will be available for questions about their perspective on the ecumenical understanding of mission, healing and reconciliation.
- Brian Farrell, Roman Catholic bishop, member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Vatican City
- Kathleen Williams, Roman Catholic theologian, executive of the World Conference of Associations of Theological Institutions, Australia
- Other speaker to be confirmed

Friday, 13 May

Lunch break (12:30-13:15) - Room 101
Speakers at the plenary session on Healing will be available for questions.
- Bernard Ugeux, Roman Catholic anthropologist and theologian, France
- Erika Schuchardt, member of German parliament, professor at University of Hanover, Germany
- Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga, evangelical activist for people living with HIV/AIDS, Bolivia
- Japé Heath, Anglican priest living with HIV, South Africa
- Anthony Allen, psychiatrist from Kingston, Jamaica

Afternoon coffee break (16:00-16:30) - Room 101
Representatives of Evangelical and Pentecostal churches will be available for questions about their perspective on the ecumenical understanding of mission, healing and reconciliation.
- Yong-Gi Hong, pentecostal pastor, Yoido Full Gospel Church, Republic of Korea
- Opoku Onyinah, pentecostal pastor and theologian, Church of Pentecost, Ghana
- Kirsteen Kim, theologian and missiologist, honorary lecturer at University of Birmingham, UK
- Other speakers to be confirmed

Saturday, 14 May

Lunch break (12:30-13:15) - Room 101
Speakers at the plenary session on Reconciliation will be available for questions.
- Iosua Pepine, church minister and fisherman from Kiribati
- Lunga ka Siboto, Anglican bishop who has been an ecumenical accompanier in Israel and Palestine
- Robert Schreiter, Roman Catholic priest and missiologist at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, USA

Afternoon coffee break (16:00-16:30) - Room 101
Representatives of Athens churches hosting the World Mission Conference will be available for questions about the local ecumenical landscape.
- Ioannis, Orthodox bishop of Thermopylae, chairman of Athens Local Arrangements Committee
- Other speakers to be confirmed