MAY 9, 2007
ELCA Synod Bishops
Urge Two-State Solution to Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
MAY 3, 2007
Marking 40 Years of Occupation
APRIL 13, 2007
Middle East Update from
Churches for Middle East Peace
APRIL 2, 2007
LWF
Council Calls for Cooperation with Palestinian Leaders, End to
Blockade
FEBRUARY 20, 2007
CMEP appeals for
U.S. to stop Israel's Temple Mount excavation
FEBRUARY 1, 2007
CMEP Publishes
Ad in Roll Call Urging President to Make Middle East Peace a Priority
JANUARY 30, 2007
ELCA
Presiding Bishop Meets With Secretary of State on
Israeli-Palestinian Peace
JANUARY 24, 2007
Church Leaders Appeal to President Bush for Peace in the Holy Land
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JANUARY 22, 2007
Middle
East Lutheran Bishop Visits U.S., Calls For Peace Among
Palestinians
OCTOBER 19, 2006
Palestinian Children Denied
Schooling
September 27,
2006
Letter to
President Bush from Churches for Middle East Peace
JUNE, 2006
Lutherans Preparing to Host Palestinian Youth Dancers
May 2, 2006
Letter From Christian
Leaders to President Bush, Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas and Israel's Prime Minister-elect Ehud Olmert
February
2006
ELCA Presiding Bishop Calls for Careful Response to Hamas'
Victory
February 28, 2006
Appeal
to the President to make Israel-Palestinian Peace a Priority of
U.S. Policy
February 2006
Presiding Bishop Hanson Urges Resolution of Augusta
Victoria Hospital Tax Case
August 2003
ELCA Churchwide Assembly action on the Middle East
June 27, 2002
Statement
of Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson on Developments Regarding the
Middle East
April
27, 2002
Statement of the NCCCUSA-sponsored delegation to the Middle
East: "By My Spirit" What Will Make for Peace in the Middle
East?
April 6, 2002
ELCA Church
Council Statement on Palestine
April 4, 2002
Statement
of Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson on the Middle East
April 2, 2002
Letter
of Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson to President Bush concerning
the need for a cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians
August 2001
ELCA Churchwide
Assembly action on the Middle East
June 7,
2001
Church
Leaders' Letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell
November 2000
ELCA
Church Council Resolution on the Middle East
October
12, 2000
ELCA Conference
of Bishops Letter to President Clinton on the Crisis in the
Mideast
October 3, 2000
Statement of ELCA
Presiding Bishop Anderson on the Crisis in the Middle East
September 6, 2000
Church Leaders'
Letter to President Clinton on the Future of Jerusalem
November 16,
1998
ELCA Church Council adopted Guidelines for Lutheran-Jewish
Relations
April 1996
ELCA Church Council action on the Middle East
August 1995
ELCA Churchwide
Assembly adopted Social Statement: For Peace in God’s World
April 18, 1994
ELCA Church Council adopted the "Declaration of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America to the Jewish Community"
September 1993
ELCA Churchwide Assembly action on the Middle East
September 1991
ELCA Churchwide Assembly action on the Conflict in the Middle
East
August 1989
ELCA Churchwide Assembly action on the Middle East
April 16, 1989
ELCA
Church Council Message on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
