{"id":2175,"date":"2016-07-01T06:05:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2016-07-01T06:05:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:05:05","slug":"world-council-churches-affirms-commitment-finding-timely-solution-conflict-israel-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/world-council-churches-affirms-commitment-finding-timely-solution-conflict-israel-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"World Council of Churches affirms commitment to finding a timely solution to conflict in Israel and Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), meeting in Trondheim, Norway, from 22 through 28 June, authorized the convening of an international ecumenical conference in 2017 \u201cto reaffirm and strengthen ecumenical witness for peace with justice for Israelis and Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In its \u201cStatement on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Peace Process,\u201d the Central Committee called on member churches and ecumenical partners to \u201clisten and respond to the voices of Palestinian Christians\u201d; to take \u201cactive steps to encourage a continued robust indigenous Christian presence in the Holy Land; to promote and support \u201call nonviolent efforts to end the occupation\u201d of Palestinian territories; to intensify \u201cdialogue and cooperation with Jewish and Muslim partners on the pilgrimage of justice and peace\u201d; and to support leaders and members of the churches in the area, \u201cstrengthening their presence in the cradle of Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/en\/press-centre\/news\/wcc-affirms-commitment-to-finding-a-timely-solution-to-conflict-in-israel-and-palestine\">Text above from the World Council of Churches<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/en\/resources\/documents\/central-committee\/2016\/statement-on-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-and-peace-process\">Full text of the Statement on the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict and Peace Process<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), meeting in Trondheim, Norway, from 22 through 28 June, authorized the convening of an international ecumenical conference in 2017 \u201cto reaffirm and strengthen ecumenical witness for peace with justice for Israelis and Palestinians.\u201d In its \u201cStatement on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Peace Process,\u201d the Central [&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":[7684],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace-process"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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