{"id":29306,"date":"2022-11-30T10:27:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T09:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=29306"},"modified":"2022-11-30T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T10:24:34","slug":"usa-statement-from-faith-organizations-and-leaders-calling-for-a-christmas-truce-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=29306","title":{"rendered":"USA: Statement from Faith Organizations and Leaders\u00a0 Calling for a Christmas Truce in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DISARMAMENT & SECURITY .<\/p>\n

A petition from Code Pink<\/a><\/p>\n

SIGN ON STATEMENT:<\/p>\n

As people of faith and conscience, believing in the sanctity of all life on this planet, we call for a Christmas Truce in Ukraine. In the spirit of the truce that occurred in 1914 during the First World War, we urge our government to take a leadership role in bringing the war in Ukraine to an end through supporting calls for a ceasefire and negotiated settlement, before the conflict results in a nuclear war that could devastate the world\u2019s ecosystems and annihilate all of God\u2019s creation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Initiated by Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA<\/a>, CODEPINK<\/a>, and the National Council of Elders<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Background and Context:<\/p>\n

As the war in Ukraine rages on, the toll of death and destruction continues to mount and the potential for escalation and the use of nuclear weapons grows. The direct catastrophic impact the war has already had on the people of Ukraine is still unknown but countless thousands of civilians have already died and 14 million have been displaced. The war\u2019s impact is multiplied outside of Ukraine\u2019s borders as rising prices for wheat, fertilizer and fuel are creating growing crises in global hunger and poverty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s Christians around the world preparing for Christmas or Jews awaiting the Festival of Lights holiday of Hanukkah all of the Abrahamic faiths embrace the prophetic voice of Isaiah who exhorted us to transform swords into plowshares. In this winter holiday season of peace, we ask our government\u2019s leaders to recall another murderous conflict between nations that took place on the European continent over a century ago. In 1914, roughly 100,000 German and British soldiers along the Western Front in World War I declared an unofficial Christmas Truce and ceased hostilities for a short period.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was a moment so shocking to our usual expectations that it continues to reverberate in our collective imaginations over 100 years later. Another Christmas Truce could save lives and pave the way for critical peace talks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Questions related to this article:<\/div>\n
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\n Can the peace movement help stop the war in the Ukraine?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The way out of the war in Ukraine will not be a military solution. The path toward peace in Ukraine requires powers of a different sort: negotiation and imagination. <\/p>\n

As leaders of a diverse group of faith communities, we sign onto the petition below and pray that our leaders have the courage and conscience to use those powers instead.<\/p>\n

Initial signers include:<\/p>\n

Bishop William J. Barber, President Repairers of the Breach
\nDr. Cornel West, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary
\nReverend Jesse Jackson, Rainbow PUSH Coalition
\nLiz\u00a0Theoharis, Poor People’s Campaign co-chair
\nReverend Graylan Scott Hagler, FOR-USA Advisor, Racial and economic justice advocate
\nDr. Zoharah Simmons, civil rights movement veteran, National Council of Elders
\nReverend Dorsey, Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, National Council of Elders
\nRev. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, General Secretary Emeritus, Reformed Church in America
\nRev. Adam Russell Taylor, President, Sojourners
\nRev. Janet Wolf, \u00a0National Council of Elders
\nJim Wallis, Georgetown University
\nBridget Moix, General Secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation
\nRev. William Lamar, IV, Metropolitan AME Church, Washington, DC
\nRev. Freeman Palmer, Conference Minister, Central Atlantic Conference of the UCC
\nRev. Dr. Dorsey Blake, Presiding Minister, The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, National Council of Elders
\nImam Abu Nahidian, Manassas Mosque
\nS\u01b0 C\u00f4 Th\u00edch N\u1eef Ch\u00e2n Kh\u00f4ng, Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism
\nTh\u1ea7y Th\u00edch Ch\u00e2n Ph\u00e1p \u1ea4n, Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism
\nPastor Bob Roberts, Church in Keller, Texas
\nRev. Dr. John Dorhauer, Executive Minister & President, United Church of Christ
\nRev. Susan Frederick-Gray, President, Unitarian Universalist Association
\nNicholas Sooy, director of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship
\nImam Mujahid Abdul Malik, President, Sound Vision Foundation
\nRabbi Phyllis Berman, ALEPH Ordination Program\u2019s Hashpa\u2019ah Program
\nDr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia, Executive Director, Religions for Peace USA
\nAriel Gold, Executive Director, Fellowship of Reconciliation USA
\nRev. Michael McBride, Pastor, The Way Christian Center; Director of Urban Strategies, Faith in Action
\nDr. Daisy Khan, Executive Director & Founder, Women’s Islamic Initiative for Spirituality & Equality
\nRev. Terrence Moran, Director of Peace, Justice, & Ecological Integrity Office, Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth
\nDr. James Zogby, President Arab American Institute, Professor, Author
\nBishop Malkhaz Songulashvili, Metropolitan Bishop, Peace Cathedral<\/p>\n

If you are not a lay or ordained faith leader, please take this to your faith community\/congregation and ask them to sign on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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