divided into five commissions. At the end of the Conference each commission presented its final report to the entire conference for approval.

Commission III dealt with The Role of the Churches and produced the 10 Points of Seelisberg that are found in the next section. The Conference recognized that the work of Commission III was "a particularly difficult task as well as one of great historic importance" because "over the centuries, Christian anti-Judaism had established a culture of contempt against the Jews." Commission III said that