Religion: Spadework for Peace

The delegates of 90 Protestant and Orthodox church groups from 32 nations, winding up their momentous meeting in Geneva (TIME, March 4), were uneasy because they felt that the nations of the world now seem "impotent to deal with the crucial problems of international order."

To give their aid and counsel, they finished the spadework for the first full-dress assembly of the World Council of Churches to be held in 1948. Probable site: Holland or Denmark. Purpose: to mobilize the influence of the world's Protestant and Orthodox churches as a prime mover in international...

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