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To reflect the more active and engaged stance that it plans to have, the organization announced a name change effective next year, the World Evangelical Alliance.

In other business, delegates called on leaders of the world's most industrialized nations to cancel the unpayable debt of impoverished nations.

"Despite the partial success of the Jubilee 2000, we still have a situation where more money is flowing out of poor countries in debt repayments than is given in aid," said Stephen Rand, prayer and campaigns director of Tearfund, a relief and development agency based in the United Kingdom. "There are countries spending more on repaying debt than on health and education."

Malaysian Christians raised nearly $120,000, a major portion of the budget, to host the conference and subsidize the costs borne by delegates, especially those from poor countries. The WEF General Assembly meets every four years.

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The WEF General Assembly site is mainly for those attending the meeting, and offers the program schedule, biographical sketches of the speakers, and information about Malaysia.

The text of Mahathir Bin Mohamad's speech is available at his office's Web site.

More information about Nancy Nosan-Clark's No Place for Abuse (which can be ordered at ChristianBook.com and other book retailers), is available at InterVarsity Press' site.

Photos from the General Assembly are available, as are audio reports from Britain's Premier Radio.

Malaysia's The Star newspaper has also been covering the General Assembly. Its articles include:

Leaders urged to help poor nations (May 10, 2001)

Help abused women, church leaders urged (May 8, 2001)

'Propagate religions carefully' (May 5, 2001)

Crosswalk.com's ReligionToday also has a report on WEF's General Assembly.

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June 11 2001, Vol. 45, No. 8