{"id":1463,"date":"2012-09-13T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T19:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2012-09-13T13:15:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T19:15:34","slug":"lwf-president-urges-syrian-led-dialogue-and-aid-for-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/lwf-president-urges-syrian-led-dialogue-and-aid-for-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"LWF President urges Syrian-led dialogue and aid for refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Lutheran World Federation, Bishop Munib Younan of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land,\u00a0has called for\u00a0a Syrian-led dialogue to resolve the current conflict there and has urged\u00a0the international community to provide emergency aid for refugees fleeing from the violence.\u00a0 He encouraged\u00a0world leaders:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cto pursue a Syrian-led process of dialogue and peace-building as diligently as they have pursued military conflict and the preservation of their supposed geopolitical interests.\u201d\u00a0 They should \u201cavoid the temptation to manipulate sectarian divisions in pursuit of their interests,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>His statement reiterated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lutheranworld.org\/lwf\/index.php\/syrian-refugees-jordan.html\" target=\"_blank\">the LWF\u2019s commitment in assisting Syrian refugees<\/a>. A Memorandum of Understanding with the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO) signed in August includes support to the JHCO in providing shelter, psycho-social support, education services and camp management at the Za\u2019atari refugee camp, inside the Jordanian border with Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Younan urged the United Nations and its member states to spare no effort in delivering the appropriate aid to refugees and to those displaced within Syria. He said efforts \u201cmust not waver\u201d in finding a peaceful and just solution to the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The ELCJHL bishop expressed support for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/en\/news\/news-management\/eng\/a\/article\/1634\/wcc-calls-for-dialogue-an.html\" target=\"_blank\">September statement on Syria by the World Council of Churches\u2019 Central Committee<\/a> calling for an end to the violence, encouraging urgent humanitarian response and a peaceful resolution of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lutheranworld.org\/lwf\/index.php\/president-syrian-dialogue.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about it\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lutheranworld.org\/lwf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Speaking-Out-for-Syria-Statement-LWF-President.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read full statement by Bishop Younan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Lutheran World Federation, Bishop Munib Younan of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land,\u00a0has called for\u00a0a Syrian-led dialogue to resolve the current conflict there and has urged\u00a0the international community to provide emergency aid for refugees fleeing from the violence.\u00a0 He encouraged\u00a0world leaders: \u201cto pursue a Syrian-led process of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8081],"tags":[27,8104,8169],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional-developments","tag-jordan","tag-syria","tag-syrian-refugees"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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