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WCC Pays Tribute to George McGovern
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GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 22, 2012 /Standard Newswire/ -- While others recall the late George S. McGovern primarily as a United States senator and anti-war presidential candidate of the Vietnam War era, the World Council of Churches (WCC) has paid tribute to him as the moderator of an ecumenical conference in 1969 that led to the creation of the WCC Programme to Combat Racism and the Special Fund to Combat Racism.
Photo: Senator George McGovern, a Methodist delegate to the WCC 4th Assembly at Uppsala, Sweden in 1968, addressed a news conference there.
McGovern, known for his leadership on hunger issues as well as global justice and peacemaking, died at the age of 90 on Sunday 21 October 2012 in his native US state of South Dakota.
The WCC tribute noted, "As chair of a landmark 1969 conference" in Notting Hill, London, "George McGovern helped point the churches on the way toward a united approach to combating racial injustice in apartheid South Africa and throughout the earth."
McGovern, a one-time theology student at Garrett Evangelical Divinity School near Chicago, represented the Methodist Church (now the United Methodist Church) as a delegate to the WCC 4th Assembly at Uppsala, Sweden in 1968.
In 1972, McGovern was nominated as the Democratic Party candidate for the presidency but was defeated by incumbent president Richard M. Nixon.
The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 349 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 560 million Christians in over 110 countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, from the [Lutheran] Church of Norway.
