Check out our new Peace Not Walls video!
Read the article:
A Lutheran response to Christian
Zionism, presented before the ELCA Conference of
Bishops gathering in San Mateo, Calif., in March 2008, by Rev. Robert Smith.
Welcome to Peace Not Walls,
the campaign of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
to learn,
pray and
act for peace with justice in the
Holy Land. The 2005
ELCA Churchwide Assembly adopted this
strategy to promote a peaceful solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to call for a halt to
construction of the separation barrier and its removal from
Palestinian land. You can find out more in our FAQs.
We are working
with other Lutherans and with ecumenical and interfaith
partners toward:
- safety and security for all Israelis and Palestinians,
- reduction of poverty and unemployment, and
- a negotiated final status agreement that includes a
shared Jerusalem as capital of two independent states and
with access and full rights in the city for Jews,
Christians, and Muslims
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Middle East Networking
Newsletter |
Date: March 7, 2008 |
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March 7, 2008 Newsletter
This newsletter is a letter from
ELCJHL Bishop Munib Younan in response to the recent violence in Israel-Palestine, particularly
the killing of eight yeshiva students and the situation in Gaza. Click
here to view the
newsletter.
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The Mount of Olives Housing
Project |
Lutheran Schools in the Holy Land |
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The Mount of Olives Housing
Project will provide 84 housing units and be built on
land owned by the Lutheran World Federation since 1950
adjacent to the LWF-administered Augusta Victoria
Hospital.
[more]
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 The
ELCJHL sponsors four K-12
schools and four additional educational programs in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The schools are a ministry
designed to address the needs of the Palestinian people as a whole and have always enrolled both girls and boys,
both Muslims and Christians. Students learn together in an open and peaceful environment and are prepared for
lives of dialogue and exchange with all people.
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