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International Affairs, said: “Our real enemy is not the Soviet Government...” In 1966, the Central
Committee of the WCC (their chief policy-making body), said than an “American victory in
Vietnam would cause long-range difficulties.” They “called upon the United States to halt its
bombing of North Vietnam and ‘review and modify’ its policy of trying to contain communism.”
They also called for the United Nations to accept Red China as a member. In May, 1967, Dr.
Martin Niemoeller, President of the WCC, was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by Russia.
The Central Committee of the WCC, made up of 120 members, meets annually to carry out
policies and decisions. The Executive Committee meets twice a year, in order to keep things
going between Central Committee meetings. The entire organization meets in seven year
intervals. Their avowed objective is to uphold the ecumenical movement, and to establish an allinclusive
church. The WCC is made up of liberals, evangelicals, neo-Orthodox, Armenians,
Calvinists, Protestants, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Russian Orthodox. Most of the non-Roman
Catholic Churches belong, and they have been extending invitations to groups such as Hindus,
Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews. They have 342 member churches in 120 countries, which
represent a membership of nearly 400 million Christians, and most of the world’s Orthodox
churches.
In October, 1979, Dr. Lukas Vischu, a Swiss Reform Minister, and Eastern Orthodox leader
Dimitrios I, urged the Roman Catholic Church to merge with the WCC. An affiliated arm of the
WCC, called the American Friends of the World Council of Churches was headquartered at the
liberal Riverside Church in New York City, which had been pastored by Skull and Bones
member Rev. William Sloane Coffin, a leader in the National Council of Churches.
In May, 1969, the WCC recommended that its churches support violence to overthrow
political tyranny and “combat racism.” Since then, they have been giving financial aid to nearly
46 revolutionary groups in 17 countries. Some of the groups are communist, while others had
been getting arms from Russia. They gave $125,000 to the South West Africa People’s
Organization in Angola, $65,000 to the African National Congress in Mozambique (whose
leader, Joe Slovo, was a member of the Communist Party, and a colonel in the Russian KGB),
and $85,000 to Robert Mugabe’s Patriotic Front. After the takeover of Zimbabwe (formerly
known as Rhodesia (named after Cecil Rhodes, who took over the area in 1897), Mugabe, a well
known communist terrorist, told a delegation from the WCC: “This is the moment for the
forthright acknowledgment of the support from the World Council of Churches for our struggle.”
During the Melbourne Conference in May, 1980, three Zimbabwe delegates told the assembly:
“Our hard-won victory did not come only through our own determination. We were sustained
and reinforced by the support– material, oral, and spiritual– accorded to us by the World Council
of Churches, and its member churches.”
In 1972, they voted to increase this funding to $1,000,000. Between 1969 and 1979, this
Committee, known as the Program to Combat Racism, had provided an average of $2,600,000 a
year. Within a ten-year period, ending with the Vietnam War in 1975, the WCC gave millions of
dollars to the Vietcong in North Vietnam. One $500,000 grant went towards their “new
economic zones.” A $200,000 grant was provided to four anti-government groups in Africa.
Between 1980 and 1985 the WCC gave $362,000 to African National Congress, whose leader,
Nelson Mandela, who had been called a “cold-blooded communist killer,” a “hard-line
communist,” a “Marxist,” and an “unrepentant terrorist.” By 1992, they had given them over
$1.3 million in grants.
Dr. John C. Bennett, a member of the WCC Executive Committee (as well as a member of
the National Council of Churches) said the following: “Communism is to be seen as an