Responding to the Challenge of Migration: Churches within the Fellowship of the World Council of Churches (WCC)

Abstract

A comprehensive view of responses by World Council of Churches member churches to the challenge of migration would involve much more than space permits. Three responses, one initiated by a WCC staff team, one by a confessional family, and one from a geographic region, however, are indicative of WCC member churches more generally. This sampling reveals a deepening theological reflection on diversity as enrichment, an experience of the church as a model of multicultural community, and a concern for a common missionary approach.