Speakers in Jerusalem, Washington make case for Holy Land peace

Published: 2005-06-27

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- For 90 minutes on a hot Sunday in Washington and Jerusalem, the voices of religious leaders joined together to make their case for peace in the Holy Land. In Washington June 26, the National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace, a multifaith conference featuring Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders, met at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center. In Jerusalem, a conference called "A Different Future" was held simultaneously at the Notre Dame Center with its own representatives of the three Abrahamic faiths. In the two cities were videoconference hookups with churches, synagogues and mosques in Jordan, Egypt, Brazil, England, Australia and the Netherlands and in more than 40 U.S. cities. In what was billed as a "transnational town meeting," speakers in the U.S. and Israeli capitals got to hear each other plead for an end to revenge for the offenses of the past and for continued progress in current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks -- with stronger U.S. support.

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