4th Assembly: Bangkok, 1968

The Assembly made its primary concern the addressing of ' a divided church in a broken world' through topics such as ‘the Christian presence in a broken world’, ‘making the Christian presence effective’, ‘the divided church’, ‘absent brethren’, and ‘ecumenical cooperation’. Other issues dealt with economic development, politics and international affairs, corruption, war, society and culture, family life, urban-industrial and rural life, youth, laity, and education.