News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. February 7, 1964 [XVIII-12]
CANADIANS SUPPORT RELIEF FUND
TORONTO: The Anglican Church of Canada, through the Primate's World Relief Fund, allocated nearly $200, 000 during 1963 for the alleviation of distress and hunger throughout the world. Of this amount only $3,500 was spent in Canada, most of the remainder going to the World Council of Churches for distribution.
EAST ASIA MEET SET
The role of the Christian in Asia today will be the principal theme of the Second Assembly of the East Asia Christian Conference at Bangkok, Thailand, Feb. 25 to March 5.
Two hundred Asian church representatives from 15 nations will meet there for their first assembly since Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, in 1959. They will represent Christian churches in Australia, Burma, Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaya, Okinawa, the Philippines, East and West Pakistan, Thailand, and New Zealand.
Charles C. Parlin, Methodist layman and New York lawyer, will bring greetings from the World Council of Churches. He is one of the Council's six presidents.
COUNCIL GROUP MEETS IN RUSSIA
The 14-member Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches will meet in Odessa, USSR, Feb. 10-14. It is the first time that the international Christian body has met in the Soviet Union.
Chairman of the committee is Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the Lutheran Church in America. He is also chairman of the 100-member policy making Central Committee.
Among the topics on the agenda are a report from the Council's observers at the Second Vatican Council, plans looking toward restructuring the world organization, and a progress report on the quest for a new general secretary to succeed Dr. W.A. Visser 't Hooft when he retires in 1965.