ENI — Rev. Samuel Kobia, head of the World Council of Churches, urged ordinary people in the Middle East to take action to promote peace and justice in the Holy Land.
“Jerusalem and Palestine are in need of transformation,” Kobia told a congregation in Jerusalem. “The desired change will be brought about not by the powerful and the mighty but by ordinary people. It is the power of the powerless that causes change to occur.”
On the same day, the WCC leader visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, and, with Jerusalem Lutheran Bishop Munib Younan, laid a wreath in the Ohel Yiskor memorial hall.
Bishop Younan said, “We, as a suffering church of Arab Christians, need churches of the world to help us to keep the hope.”
The WCC was founded in 1948 and has 347 member churches, including The Presbyterian Church in Canada. The Roman Catholic Church is not a member but has representatives on some WCC bodies.
