Member Church and Ecumenical Statements on Violence between Hamas and Israel
Please find below a list of links Ecumenical Statements made by member churches. This list will be updated as needed during the ongoing violence between Hamas and Israel.
Member church statements
Statement on the War in the Holy Land (ACC + ELCIC) – October 8, 2023
Call for a day of prayer and fasting for Israel/Gaza and Ukraine (ACC + ELCIC) – February 1, 2024
A response to partners’ requests from the Middle East (UCC) – November 20, 2023
Gaza crisis: A call to help, a call to peace (D&P – Caritas Canada) – 25 October, 2023
https://www.anglican.ca/publicwitness/peace-and-conflict/
https://www.anglicanlutheran.ca/statements/anglican-and-lutheran-leaders-invite-canadian-churches-to-mark-world-day-of-prayer/
https://www.anglicanlutheran.ca/statements/call-for-a-day-of-prayer-and-fasting-for-israel-gaza-and-ukraine/
https://devp.org/en/gaza-advocacy-ceasefire-arms-embargo
PCC’s statement.
https://presbyterian.ca/2023/10/10/a-relentless-cycle-of-conflict-inflicting-immeasurable-pain-and-suffering/
UCCanada statement, October 7, 2023:
https://united-church.ca/news/united-church-canada-calls-immediate-ceasefire-israel-and-palestine
https://united-church.ca/news/canada-should-support-south-africas-application-icj
MCC Statement and campaign
https://mcc.org/campaign/call-end-violence-palestine-and-israel-canada
WCC statements:
WCC urgently appeals for immediate ceasefire in Israel and Palestine, October 7, 2023
https://www.oikoumene.org/news/wcc-urgently-appeals-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-israel-and-palestine
WCC calls for a new approach to conflict in Palestine and Israel, October 13, 2023
https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/statement-wcc-calls-for-a-new-approach-to-the-conflict-in-palestine-and-israel
WCC calls for urgent humanitarian response in Gaza and UN-Led criminal investigation, October 19, 2023
https://www.oikoumene.org/news/wcc-calls-for-urgent-humanitarian-response-in-gaza-and-un-led-criminal-investigation
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops CCCB
EN: Statement by the Most Rev. William T. McGrattan, Bishop of Calgary and CCCB President, to the Catholic Faithful in Canada on the Recent Escalation of Conflict in the Holy Land – Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
FR: Déclaration de Mgr William T. McGrattan, évêque de Calgary et président de la CECC, aux fidèles catholiques au Canada sur la récente escalade du conflit en Terre Sainte – Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
Mennonite Church Canada Palestine Israel Network
https://www.mennonitechurch.ca/article/16098-mc-canada-pin-statement-on-gaza
Project Ploughshares
https://www.ploughshares.ca/reports/project-ploughshares-condemns-atrocities-in-israel-and-palestine-calls-for-a-ceasefire
Ploughshares Statement – Setting the record straight on Canada’s arms exports to Israel
Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers)
https://quakerservice.ca/news/donate-to-urgent-humanitarian-relief-efforts-in-gaza/
https://quakerservice.ca/news/quaker-organizations-call-for-a-ceasefire-and-humanitarian-protections-in-gaza/
https://quakerservice.ca/news/in-response-to-the-ongoing-intensity-of-violence-in-palestine-israel/
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
https://elcic.ca/holy-land/
https://www.anglicanlutheran.ca/statements/call-for-a-day-of-prayer-and-fasting-for-israel-gaza-and-ukraine/
Ecumenical Actions
