A Christian Call for Peace in the Holy Land
A Christian Call for Peace in the Holy Land
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We
pray for peace in the Holy Land.
We
are Christians called to express our concerns for peace
in Israel and Palestine.
We
believe that one of the primary outcomes of negotiations
in the Middle East must be a viable Palestinian state
living in peace alongside the state of Israel. For a
Palestinian state to be viable and for Israel to be
secure, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza
must end. All Israeli settlement activity in the
Occupied Territories must cease.
We
believe in the vision of a shared Jerusalem as the
heritage, hope and home of two peoples and three
religions. Jerusalem should be a shared, open city – a
sign of peace and a symbol of reconciliation for the
Abrahamic faiths.
We
call for an immediate end to the cycle of violence. We
support a negotiated agreement for an
Israeli-Palestinian-Arab peace based on international
law.
We
strongly support the presence of international observers
as one immediate means of discouraging further violence
between Palestinians and Israelis.
We
urge our country’s leaders to do all in their power to
prepare the road for a just and durable peace.
