(EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA CHURCH COUNCIL
RESOLUTION
April 9-11, 2005)Recommended:
To acknowledge the urgent call of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Jordan and the Holy Land for action regarding the continuing
construction of the separation wall in Palestine;
To encourage members, congregations, and synods to become aware of
the effects of the separation wall on the lives of Palestinians,
including
a. the threat to future hopes for peace; and
b. the threat to the ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Jordan and the Holy Land and other churches;
To call for the immediate cessation of construction of the Israeli
separation wall and the removal of all existing portions of this wall on
Palestinian land;
To request the Division for Church in Society to intensify its
advocacy relating to this critical situation, in accord with the
Churchwide Strategy for Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Engagement in Israel and Palestine;
To request that members of this church and synods meeting in assembly
respond to the request of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's
companion church in the Holy Land for bold advocacy that calls for
construction of the separation wall to cease; and
To direct appropriate churchwide staff to provide information related
to this issue for use by members, congregations, and synods.