WCC

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WCC is the commonly used abbreviation for the World Council of Churches, a major global ecumenical organization that fosters unity and cooperation among Christian denominations worldwide.

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Label Occurrences
WCC canonical 5

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian organization
ecumenical organization
abbreviation WCC self-linksurface differs
aimsTo foster ecumenical cooperation
promote Christian unity
promote common Christian witness
promote peace
promote social justice
cooperatesWith Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholic Church
doesNotInclude Roman Catholic Church as a member
foundedInCity Amsterdam
foundedInCountry Netherlands
foundedInYear 1948
hasAbbreviation WCC self-linksurface differs
hasGoverningBody Assembly
Central Committee
Executive Committee
hasLeadershipRole general secretary
moderator of the Central Committee
hasMemberChurches over 350
hasMotto A fellowship of churches seeking unity, a common witness and Christian service
hasProgramArea Education and Ecumenical Formation
Faith and Order Commission
surface form: Faith and Order

Mission and Evangelism
Public Witness and Diakonia
headquartersCountry Switzerland
headquartersLocation Geneva
includesDenominations Anglican churches
Baptist churches
Lutheran churches
Methodist churches
Orthodox churches
Reformed churches
United and Uniting churches
legalForm non-governmental organization
memberChurchesFromCountries over 120
organizes assemblies
commissions
consultations
participatedIn ecumenical movement of the 20th century
primaryLanguage English
French
German
Spanish
regionServed worldwide
religiousAffiliation Christianity
standsFor World Council of Churches
totalMembership over 500 million Christians
website https://www.oikoumene.org

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: WCC
Description of subject: WCC is the commonly used abbreviation for the World Council of Churches, a major global ecumenical organization that fosters unity and cooperation among Christian denominations worldwide.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

WCC abbreviation WCC self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: World Council of Churches
WCC hasAbbreviation WCC self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: World Council of Churches
WCC abbreviation WCC
WCC abbreviation WCC