WARC issues call to prayer and action for Gaza

Kirkpatrick and Nyomi: ‘none of the violence is acceptable'

by Jerry L. Van Marter
Presbyterian News Service

LOUISVILLE ― Leaders of the Geneva-based World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) have called upon member churches to pray for an immediate cease-fire and for “a lasting peace with justice in this region...”

“None of the violence is acceptable,” said WARC President Clifton Kirkpatrick of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and WARC General Secretary Setri Nyomi ― a Ghanaian Presbyterian ― in their Jan. 7 statement, entitled “A Call to Prayer and Action to End the Violence in Gaza.”

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