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| World Council of Churches Stands By As Christians Perish |
| 2013-10-24 |
| The World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva claims to represent and serve 345 churches worldwide. What has it done to help the persecuted churches in Iraq, Syria and Egypt? Or the flood of Syrian refugees into Jordan and Lebanon? Answer: it has devoted the whole of 2013 to promoting a World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel (September 22-28). That is, it has poured its Swiss francs into stirring up the one corner of the area that is currently almost calm. It is not as if it is a secret that Muslim violence in Iraq drove out half the Christian population within a decade. Or that affiliates of Al-Qaeda have emptied whole Syrian villages and towns of their Christian populations. Or that almost a hundred Coptic churches in Egypt were assailed by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood shortly after President Morsi was deposed. And that was merely one chapter in the ongoing martyrdom of the Copts, which has seen 100,000 of them fleeing Egypt since the downfall of President Mubarak. The excuse for this is that the WCC has maintained for decades, and insists on maintaining against all evidence, that the churches of the Middle East have no other real problem than the Palestinian issue. Earlier this year (May 21-25), the WCC held a conference on "Christian Presence and Witness in the Middle East" near Beirut, Lebanon. Its closing statement proclaimed: "Palestine continues to be the central issue in the region. Resolving the conflict between Israel and Palestine in accordance with the UN resolutions and international law, will greatly help resolving the other conflicts in the region." |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #3 ...the preface "World Council" negates the importance of the remaining title... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-10-24 21:22 |
| #2 Actually, it's the leftleftleft, barely, superficially, non-doctrinally, only-when-necessary Christian. Book is dated, but pretty clear and little has changed, "On Thin Ice" by Roy Beck, once a reporter for the United Methodist paper. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2013-10-24 07:23 |
| #1 gatestone institute was formerly known as the Hudson institute the WCC is part of what is sometimes called the Christian Left |
| Posted by: lord garth 2013-10-24 06:41 |