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The story shared by Fr Yakoub Babawe of the Oum-El-Nour Relief Committee of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Iraq’s city of Erbil moved and challenged participants at a recent meeting in Beirut.

The latest edition of the quarterly WCC journal features a discussion of the roots of religion and violence in the Middle East. Five presentations drawn from three WCC-sponsored conferences of recent years explore aspects of the religious concepts of “promised land,” the “theology of land” and how to go about “reading the Hebrew Bible in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

Während einer Tagung, die jüngst in Straßburg, Frankreich, stattgefunden hat, haben Vertreterinnen und Vertreter von ökumenischen Organisationen, der katholischen, evangelikalen und Pfingstkirchen versprochen, der Diskriminierung und Verfolgung von Christinnen und Christen weltweit und der Gewalt ihnen gegenüber entschiedener entgegenzutreten. Eine internationale Konsultation wird sich 2015 eingehender mit diesem Thema auseinandersetzen.

A recent meeting of representatives from ecumenical organizations, Catholic, Evangelical and Pentecostal churches in Strasbourg, France has promised to address more effectively discrimination, persecution and violence faced by Christians around the world. This theme will be explored in depth through an international consultation to be held in 2015.