A MESSAGE FROM THE FRENCH GROUP OF THE ECUMENICAL FORUM OF EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN WOMEN FOR CHRISTIAN WOMEN IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL
It is as women and as Christians that we address you, Christian women who live where Christ lived.
We are deeply upset by the horrors endured on both sides in this new conflict which has already made too many victims.
How long will there be so much injustice and so much hatred?
The principal victims of these intolerable acts are mainly the most vulnerable ones: women, children and elderly people.
In the dramatic situation that you are going through, we would like to express our support and our solidarity. Be assured of our deepest sympathy.
We are praying wholeheartedly with you and for you, our sisters in Jesus-Christ. We are also praying for all the women of this region who suffer and cry.
With all the men and women who work for peace, we press for the end of this terrible war as soon as possible.
Only true justice will allow all the men and women to live in peace in this Biblical country. During the ecumenical assembly of European Christians in Basel in 1989, it was repeated that there cannot be real peace without justice but that justice demands peace.
In communion with you, we place all our hope in Jesus-Christ, our Lord. With you we assert that He knew injustice and hatred, that He suffered, that He died because of them and that He is Alive.
On behalf of the members of the French Forum Anne-Marie SCHOTT - National Coordinator