I have decided to declare Friday, 27 October, a day of fasting, penance and prayer for #peace. I invite the various Christian confessions, members of other religious, and all who hold the cause of peace in the world at heart to participate.
Eigentlich wollte Betreiber Eldar Fano seine Hummusbar in Leipzig-Plagwitz schließen – aus Angst. Dann bekam er Hilfe. Erst von #Fußballfans, inzwischen von der #Polizei. Doch der #Terror in #Israel hat den Alltag in dem Lokal verändert. https://t.co/Z1Kmhwix60
Eigentlich wollte Betreiber Eldar Fano seine Hummusbar in Leipzig-Plagwitz schließen – aus Angst. Dann bekam er Hilfe. Erst von #Fußballfans, inzwischen von der #Polizei. Doch der #Terror in #Israel hat den Alltag in dem Lokal verändert. https://t.co/Z1Kmhwix60
A Jewish child is brutally slaughtered.
A Palestinian child is brutally slaughtered.
You can contextualise, historicise, politicise all you want but there are two dead children laying in the dust.
If you can't see the evil in both deaths then shame on you.
The General calls Salvationists throughout the world to pray for peace in Israel, Gaza, and the many other places in the world where there is strife and war.
https://t.co/TecnWT3M2r
Pray for Israel and Gaza:
- For an end to hostilities and for rapid de-escalation of the conflict
- For those who've lost loved ones to experience the closeness of God
- That God will protect His children, and that the church in Israel and Gaza will be a beacon of hope.
Warum machen Sie trotzdem weiter?
Weil ich aus diesem Konflikt gekommen bin, weil ich die Tragweite dieses Hasses gespürt habe und weil ich absolut überzeugt davon bin, wenn die Palästinenser eine bessere Zukunft haben wollen, dann gibt es nur den Weg der Versöhnung, der Zusammenarbeit und der Koexistenz. All das, was die Palästinenser seit 75 Jahren versuchen, hat nichts gebracht und wird auch nichts bringen. Im Gegenteil. Es wird noch mehr Elend, noch mehr Kriege und noch mehr Verluste mit sich bringen. Deshalb bin ich als Mensch, als Palästinenser und als Deutscher überzeugt, in diesem Moment auf der Seite Israels stehen zu müssen.
https://t.co/bK2EIx9VW6
When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents.
In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy.
It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.
@Franklin_Graham@realDonaldTrump I do pray for him: for his conversion by faith in Jesus witnessed by Holy Spirit fruit and that God would silence his voice and influence. Lord, have mercy.