NCLCI press releases
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NOSTRA AETATE AT
40:
Yesterday's Achievement, Today's Challenge
The Executive
Committee of the National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel
celebrated the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking Vatican II
document, Nostra Aetate, that opened the door to a new era of
Christian-Jewish relations. Read
more here...
The NCLCI Repudiates
Call
for Divestment.
We, Executive Committee members of the National
Christian Leadership Conference for Israel, express our profound
disagreement with recent national and international Protestant Church
resolutions that call for selected divestment from certain companies
doing business in Israel. These statements treat Israel as the major
barrier to peace while ignoring the significant risks for peace that
Israel is taking in withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and parts of the
West Bank.
Read
more here...
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The Church, Israel and Divestment
A CHURCH IN TROUBLE
On July 1,
2004, delegates to the 216th General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church USA voted 431 to 62 to begin a process of phased, selective
divestment from certain companies doing business in Israel that harm
innocent Palestinians. In adopting that resolution, the 216th
General Assembly set off a firestorm of criticism from Christians and Jews
around the country and in Israel, but nowhere is the criticism as severe as
it has been within the Presbyterian Church USA itself. Today the PCUSA is a church in trouble.
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more here...
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In Commemoration of 350
years of Jewish life in America . . .
During these 350 years, Jews have made incalculable contributions
to the common life of our nation, which is out of proportion to their
numbers. We see these contributions in the following fields of endeavor:
religion and philosophy, literature, medicine, scientific research,
business, sports, the arts among others.
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On Christian Zionism
.This past summer a number of Protestant denominations issued
statements and resolutions that denounced “Christian Zionism.” These did not
take into account the long history of Protestant and Catholic statements
affirming Jewish aspirations regarding Israel. Read
more here...
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NCLCI CALLS FOR PALESTINIAN
ACCOUNTABILITY
The time has come for
Palestinian leaders to stop blaming Israel for hardships experienced by
their own people and to assume responsibility for developing their own
independent democratic state. Read more
here...
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A STATEMENT BY
THE NCLCI REGARDING
ISRAEL’S WAR ON TERRORISM
The National Christian
Leadership Conference for Israel (NCLCI), a broad based ecumenical network
of Christian organizations and individuals united in support for Israel,
continues to be deeply concerned about events in the Middle East. Thirteen
members of the NCLCI Executive Committee traveled to the region in January
2002 to assess the situation and to express our support for genuine peace
between Israelis and Palestinians. Read more
here...
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SISTER ROSE THERING AT THE RALLY FOR ISRAEL
Shalom haverim! Peace, my friends.
Indeed I stand with you today and always. When Pope John Paul II stood in Yad Vashem in Israel, he asked us Catholics-Christians to "Remember for a purpose."
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here...
- The time has come for
Palestinian leaders to stop blaming Israel for hardships experienced by
their own people and to assume responsibility for developing their own
independent democratic state. Read
more here...
- The National Christian
Leadership Conference for Israel (NCLCI) is appalled at the horrendous
escalation of terrorism against Israel, in spite of a cease-fire
declared by the Israeli government. Read more
here...
- The National Christian Leadership
Conference for Israel (NCLCI) at its meeting in Springfield, Missouri
(October 27-29, 2000) expresses its profound sadness at the loss of lives
– Palestinian Arabs, Israelis and Druze -- during the recent hostilities
in Israel and areas under Israeli and/or Palestinian authority.
- May
26, 2000 A statement from the National Christian Leadership Conference
for Israel (NCLCI) on Israel's withdrawal from
Southern Lebanon.
- December 24, 1996 letter to the New York Times Letters
to the Editor
Recently an ad appeared entitled "Christians Call for a Shared Jerusalem"
(NY Times, December 21). One should not get the impression that the statement speaks for
all, or even a significant number of, Christians in the United States or the Middle East.
- October 27, 1996 National Christian Leadership Conference for
Israel (NCLCI) reaffirms its conviction that Jerusalem should remain the single, undivided
political capital of Israel.
- October 27, 1996 National Christian Leadership Conference for
Israel (NCLCI) is cognizant of the impatience and regret expressed by a number of our
American church leaders that the Middle East peace process seems to have flagged.
- March 5, 1996 National Christian Leadership Conference for
Israel (NCLCI) at the meeting of its Executive Committee in Minneapolis (March 1-3, 1996)
expressed its outrage over the terrorist bombings in Israel. The intentional killing of
innocent people is abhorrent.
- November 20, 1995 The National Christian Leadership Conference
for Israel (NCLCI) announces the appointment of David Blewett as its new executive
director. He succeeds Sister Rose Thering who recently retired but will remain active with
NCLCI as one of its vice presidents.
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