General Secretary Kinnamon Public Statements

The Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) clergyman and a long-time educator and ecumenical leader, is the ninth General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA.

The NCC is the ecumenical voice of America's Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican, historic African American, evangelical and traditional peace churches. These 35 communions have 45 million faithful members in 100,000 congregations in all 50 states.

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Public Statements by the General Secretary

Below are links to public statements, messages and addresses of the Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, NCC General Secretary.

► Statement to a press conference held by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, June 8, 2010

► Address to a rally and march in Times Square on the eve of the United Nation's 2010 review conference of the parties to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons treaty, May 2, 2010.

► Message to an Interfaith Convocation at the CCUN on the eve of the United Nation's 2010 review conference of the parties to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons treaty, May 2, 2010

► Message on poverty to the National Association of Ecumenical and Interfaith Staff (NAEIS), Baltimore, March 16, 2010

► Remarks before B'nai B'rith on Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2010

► What Does the Ecumenical Movement Say About Human Rights? Bangor Seminary, January 25, 2010

► Message to United Methodist Bishops, Lake Junaluska, N.C., November 2, 2009

► Statement on the murder of Dr. George Tiller, June 3, 2009

► Letter to Speaker Pelosi on legislation designating the 1915 massacre of 1.5 million Armenians as a 'Genocide', May 14, 2009