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This is the logo for World Council of Churches. Further details: The logo of the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement; the WCC permits other Christian ecumenical organizations to use the icon to represent their work. The red logo depicts a Christian cross on top of an abstracted boat on the sea with the word "oikoumene" arching above the cross. The boat and cross was a symbol used by the ecumenical movement before the WCC began in 1948 and invokes both the story of the calling of the Disciples by Jesus when they were fishing and the story of Jesus calming the storm while at sea. The word "oikoumene" is a transliteration of the Ancient Greek οἰκουμένη and means "the whole inhabited earth;" the word "ecumenical" derives from it.

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