Historic peace churches commit to healing in a violent world

 

Representatives of the world's Historic Peace Churches gathered in Solo, Indonesia in December 2007, to ask what "Peace in Our Land" means practically - through the interrelated topics of injustice, religious pluralism, and poverty.

 

These churches - which see peace and nonviolence as central to the Christian Gospel, rather than an "optional extra" - include the Church of the Brethren, the Mennonites and Brethren in Christ, and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

 

This was the third in a series of international conferences of the peace churches, invited by the Decade to Overcome Violence program of the World Council of Churches. Previous gatherings had been held in Beinenberg, Switzerland, in 2001; and in Kenya in 2004. Each gathering has been funded and planned by the peace churches themselves.

 

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