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Churches
1995 Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, gen-sec Council of Churches, dies at 64

1994 Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64

1988 Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches

1985 Eugene Carson Blake, sec-gen World Council of Churches, dies at 78

1983 Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in New York City

1972 Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches

1965 Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054

1963 All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda

1960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches

1951 Frank Chikane, sec-gen of South Africa Council of Churches

1948 World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft)

1948 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries

1943 Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews

1942 RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism

1940 Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants

1936 Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject nazism

1930 Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches

1930 David Staple, joint President, Council of Churches for British and Ireland

1921 Philip A. Potter, Dominica sec-gen World council of Churches

1920 Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders

1914 World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms

1906 Eugene Carson Blake, U.S. sec-gen of World council of Churches, 1966-72

1903 John Piper, British writer, US Churches in WW I, /official war painter

842 Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches



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