Middle East “needs justice not more arms”

posted on: Aug 22, 2015

GENEVA, 3 August 2015 (LWI) – At its 2015 meeting, the Council of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) adopted a resolution on the Middle East, voicing concern about violence in the region, the vulnerability of religious and other minorities, and the breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

“Religion has been used to legitimize much of the region’s violence,” the resolution states, citing the situation in Syria, Iraq and the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Religious groups have been targeted. In this context, efforts to promote religiously-identified political moderation are struggling against the growth of extremism.

“The region needs justice not more arms,” the resolution says.

Source: hcef.org