{"id":1854,"date":"2013-05-27T15:53:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T21:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2013-05-27T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T21:55:15","slug":"bishop-younan-speaks-at-conference-on-christians-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/bishop-younan-speaks-at-conference-on-christians-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Younan Speaks at Conference on Christians in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Beirut, Lebanon<\/em>: On May 22 2013, Lutheran World Federation (LWF) President, Bishop Munib Younan of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL), spoke during the World Council of Churches (WCC) and Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) conference on Christian Presence and Witness in the Middle East.\u00a0\u201cWe do not live in the mentality of the ghetto, nor in the mentality of a minority complex, nor do we live as\u00a0<em>dhimmi<\/em>\u00a0(dependent) people,\u201d said Bishop Younan. \u201cWe have always been, as Arab Christians, building our societies, loyal to our countries and nationalities, bringing hope in hopeless situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the LWF <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lutheranworld.org\/lwf\/index.php\/arab-christians-have-built-hope-in-hopeless-situations.html\">news story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the full speech<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/en\/resources\/documents\/wcc-programmes\/public-witness-addressing-power-affirming-peace\/middle-east-peace\/speech-of-bishop-munib-younan\"> click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut, Lebanon: On May 22 2013, Lutheran World Federation (LWF) President, Bishop Munib Younan of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL), spoke during the World Council of Churches (WCC) and Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) conference on Christian Presence and Witness in the Middle East.\u00a0\u201cWe do not live in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5642,7680,8081],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elcjhl","category-palestinian-christians","category-regional-developments"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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