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Commission for the Churches’ Participation in Development

Also known as: CCPD

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Christian social welfare

  • mosaic: Christianity
    In Christianity: Property, poverty, and the poor

    …of Churches (WCC) established the Commission for the Churches’ Participation in Development (CCPD). Initially involved in development programs and the provision of technical services, the CCPD focus shifted to the psychological and political character of the symbiosis of development and underdevelopment. This focus was endorsed at the 1975 WCC Assembly…

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