A comprehensive view of responses by World Council of Churches member churches to the challenge of migration would involve much more than space permits. Three responses, one initiated by a WCC staff team, one by a confessional family, and one from a geographic region, however, are indicative of WCC member churches more generally. This sampling reveals a deepening theological reflection on diversity as enrichment, an experience of the church as a model of multicultural community, and a concern for a common missionary approach.
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