What has been the purpose of the World Council of Churches program on transnational corporations?
The program has been mainly an instrument to sensitize churches about the issue of transnational corporations. In the milieu of ecumenicalism, there has been a broad ignorance about the importance of transnationals. If churches have a social responsibility to help change the world into a more just, fair, and egalitarian place, then churches have to understand the mechanisms of economics. And nowadays, the world economy has one central agent: transnational corporations. The churches have to engage in the study of transnational corporations in order to play an active role in society. What activities has the program carried out to “sensitize”churches to corporations? Our work has involved not only the development of contacts, producing studies, and writing newsletters to churches around the world, but also we have organized regional conferences, which are called consultations. The purpose of those consultations was to bring together church representatives with people who are directly affe
