corpus christi
July 26th, 2006, 03:33 PM
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/196/story_19641_1.html
Many Christian groups have been pressing for a cease-fire since the crisis began on July 12, when Lebanon-based Hezbollah guerrillas entered Israel and captured two Israeli soldiers. Most recently, on Monday (July 24), the World Alliance of Reformed Churches called for "an immediate cessation of violent acts by all parties," and said the first step "is for all acts of violence to end immediately." ..
In a July 21 letter to Bush, signed by more than a dozen Roman Catholic and Protestant groups -- including the National Council of Churches -- Churches for Middle East Peace told the president his leadership "and the full weight of the Untied States, acting in concert with the international community, must be applied now to achieve an immediate cease-fire and to launch an intensive diplomatic initiative for the cessation of hostilities...
Churches for Middle East Peace is an umbrella group whose board members include representatives from the Alliance of Baptists, the American Friends Service Committee, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Mennonite Central Committee, the Roman Catholic Conference of Major Superiors of Men's Institutes, the Presbyterian Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church, the Unitarian Universalist Assocation and the United Church of Christ.
Many Christian groups have been pressing for a cease-fire since the crisis began on July 12, when Lebanon-based Hezbollah guerrillas entered Israel and captured two Israeli soldiers. Most recently, on Monday (July 24), the World Alliance of Reformed Churches called for "an immediate cessation of violent acts by all parties," and said the first step "is for all acts of violence to end immediately." ..
In a July 21 letter to Bush, signed by more than a dozen Roman Catholic and Protestant groups -- including the National Council of Churches -- Churches for Middle East Peace told the president his leadership "and the full weight of the Untied States, acting in concert with the international community, must be applied now to achieve an immediate cease-fire and to launch an intensive diplomatic initiative for the cessation of hostilities...
Churches for Middle East Peace is an umbrella group whose board members include representatives from the Alliance of Baptists, the American Friends Service Committee, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Mennonite Central Committee, the Roman Catholic Conference of Major Superiors of Men's Institutes, the Presbyterian Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church, the Unitarian Universalist Assocation and the United Church of Christ.