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NILI Letter to President Bush  (January 2008)

 

NILI Statement- After the Annapolis Conference: What Needs to Happen (December 2007)

 

NCC Hopeful as Annapolis Mideast Peace Talks Begin (November 26, 2007)

 

Archbishop Vicken Aykazian is installed as President of NCC (November 9, 2007)

 

NCC Reaffirmation of Commitments to Peace in the Middle East In Light of the 1980 Middle East Policy Statement (November 7, 2007)

 

Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land Communiqué (November 7, 2007)

 

National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East: Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (November 1, 2007)

National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East: National Jewish, Christian and Muslim Leaders Urge Steps for Mideast Peace Conference (August 17, 2007)

Church Leaders Write to President Bush (January 2007)

National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East Statement, Arab-Israeli-Palestinian Peace: From Crisis to Hope (December 12, 2006)

National Council of Churches USA and Church World Service on the current violence in the Middle East (July 14, 2006)

Interreligious Appeal to the President to Make Israeli-Palestinian Peace a Priority of U.S. Policy (February, 2006) 

NCC Condemns Ahmadinejad's Holocaust Statement (Dec. 16, 2005)

Interreligious Letter to Secretary Rice on Restarting Road Map  (Nov. 29, 2005)

NCC Letter to President Abbas and Prime Minister Sharon (May 24, 2005)

NCC Delegation to the Middle East Issues Statement: Barriers Do Not Bring Freedom (February 6, 2005)

National Interreligious Initiative Letter to President Bush (January 13, 2005)

National Interreligious Leadership Delegation -- Appeal to Powell  (June 1, 2004)

Toward a Peace-Centered Foreign Policy -- Address by Bob Edgar (April 2004)

WCC: Statement on the Wall (February 23, 2004)

2003 Prayers for Peace in the Middle East (December 2003)

A Ray of Hope in Israel/Palestine (December 11, 2003)

Resolution of the Conflict in the Middle East (November 6, 2003)

CWS Resolution on Ending the Occupation (October 28, 2003)

Coalition Letter on FY 2004: Foreign Operations Request (June 2003)

Interfaith statement on Iraq War Aftermath (April 30, 2003)

Statements in Response to War on Iraq (March 2003)

U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East calls for urgent U.S. led push for peace in the Middle East (February 21, 2003)

 

NCC Justice for Women Working Group: "Potential War on Iraq: A Threat to Women and Children" (September 24, 2002)

World Council of Churches Letter and Statment on Iraq (September 20, 2002)

Leaders from American, Canadian, and British Churches to U.S. Government: 'Stop the Rush to War' (August 29, 2002)

MECC Statement on Recent Situation Concerning Iraq (August 5, 2002)

Delegation of U.S. Church Leaders Releases Statement: 'By My Spirit': What Will Make for Peace in the Middle East? (April 30, 2002)

NCC: Statement on the Middle East by the Rev. Dr. Bob Edgar (April 2, 2002)

World Council of Churches: Open letter to the member churches of the World Council of Churches, regional and national councils of churches and ecumenical partner organizations (March 15, 2002)

U.S. Church Leaders Welcome U.N. Resolution on Palestine and Reiterate Need for an End of Occupation (March 14, 2002)

A Call for Peace from the Jerusalem Church Leaders (March 9, 2002)

The First Alexandria Declaration of the Religious Leaders of the Holy Land (January 21, 2002)
 

NCC: Statement on Escalating Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (December 6, 2001)

Joint statement to the media by the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (November 7, 2001)

WCC Consultation on Israeli-Palestinian conflict decides on coordinated ecumenical action (August 8, 2001)

WCC Visit to the Occupied Territories and Israel (June 27-July 1, 2001)

Ecumenical Delegation to the Middle East (December 2000)

Their Beatitudes the Patriarchs and Heads of the Christian Communities in Jerusalem (September 30, 2000)

Church Leaders Urge President to Support the Sharing of Jerusalem (September 7, 2000)

WCC: Resolution on Jerusalem Final Status Negotiations (September 2000)

Church Leaders Protest the Confiscation of Palestinian Identity Cards (March 19, 1999)

US Church Leaders Urge the President to Redouble Efforts for Peace (May 8, 1998)

National Council of Churches (November 1996)

"Jerusalem First" is Now a Priority, statement of the Churches of Jerusalem (October 8, 1996)

CMEP: Call for a Shared Jerusalem (October 4, 1996)

Jerusalem Churches Speak (September 29, 1996)

WCC: General Situation in Palestine (September 26, 1996)

Middle East Inter-Faith Dialog (September 16, 1996)

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