{"id":11930,"date":"2022-07-06T12:25:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/?p=11930"},"modified":"2022-08-04T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:52:04","slug":"casely-essamuahs-03-interview-at-the-wcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2022\/07\/06\/casely-essamuahs-03-interview-at-the-wcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Casely Essamuah&#8217;s (&#8217;03) interview at the WCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2022\/07\/2022_06_PhotoByMarceloSchneider_007_-4-450x300.jpeg\" alt=\"casely essamuah headshot\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11931 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2022\/07\/2022_06_PhotoByMarceloSchneider_007_-4-450x300.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2022\/07\/2022_06_PhotoByMarceloSchneider_007_-4-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2022\/07\/2022_06_PhotoByMarceloSchneider_007_-4-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2022\/07\/2022_06_PhotoByMarceloSchneider_007_-4.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The first question the secretary of Global Christian Forum, Rev. Dr. Casely Baiden Essamuah, asks himself when he sits down at the table together with networking peers from different denominations is: \u201cwho is missing?&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rev. Dr. Casely Baiden Essamuah (&#8217;03) recently gave an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/news\/bridging-gaps-and-bringing-people-to-the-table\">interview<\/a> to WCC Communications and\u00a0elaborated that plans were underway to hold a global gathering of the Forum in 2024 in Accra, Ghana. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/news\/wcc-global-christian-forum-sign-memorandum-of-understanding-affirming-mutual-quest-for-christian-unity\">memorandum of understanding<\/a> was also signed between the Global Christian Forum and the World Council of Churches during his visit to Geneva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first question the secretary of Global Christian Forum, Rev. Dr. Casely Baiden Essamuah, asks himself when he sits down at the table together with networking peers from different denominations is: \u201cwho is missing?&#8221;&#8221; Rev. Dr. Casely Baiden Essamuah (&#8217;03) recently gave an interview to WCC Communications and\u00a0elaborated that plans were underway to hold a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1991,2133],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12049,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930\/revisions\/12049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}