By Trevor Grundy, Ecumenical News

BUSAN, South Korea – After 11 days celebrating the diversity of Christianity the 10th World Council of Churches Assembly drew to a close Friday after passing a number of public issues statements followed by prayers.

New presidents have been elected to serve the church grouping that represents some 560 million Christians globally from mainly, Anglican, Orthodox and Protestant churches and some are bowing out after years of service.

On the eve of the assembly's closure, the outgoing President of the WCC for Europe, Dame Mary Tanner, told Ecumenical News, "It has been such an amazing gathering of Christians from every part of the world.

"We have experienced the breadth and the depth of Christianity and heard stories about people live in broken societies, from places where there is war.

"We have worshipped and worked together and here we have received a feeling of the huge diversity of the Christian Church."

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