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\"LWF\"<\/a>The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) President Bishop Dr Munib A. Younan, has warned while on a visit to France that globalized conflict is increasing Islamophobia and anti-Semitism and threatening civil liberties in Europe and North America.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are seeing a self-fulfilling prophecy of clashing civilizations, extremisms of all sorts are strengthened as identities become more polarized,\u201d said Younan, a Palestinian who heads the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land.<\/p>\n

He spoke on 4 March at the Paris headquarters of the Protestant Federation of France (FPF), during a meeting the FPF organized in association with the Friends of Sabeel France, which supports the Sabeel ecumenical liberation theology center in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

He called for a new, concerted effort to renew global commitment to confront the destructive cultural impulses of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, which \u201care two sides of the same coin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Holy Land bishop said he was convinced that faith institutions, including churches, have a responsibility to strengthen political and religious moderates throughout the world, as the clearest way to diminish the appeal of extremism. \u201cThis is not a wishy-washy moderation; it is instead a robust moderation that claims the mandate of faith and defends the wellbeing of all people, not only Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Text and photo from LWF news release. Click here for full text.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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