The outgoing general secretary of the World Council of Churches has said that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories should be declared a "sin against God".
"Occupation along with the concomitant humiliation of a whole people for over six decades constitutes not just economic and political crimes but, like anti-Semitism, it is a sin against God," said WCC general secretary the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, in a report on 26 August 2009 to a meeting of the church grouping's main governing body, its central committee.
He noted that at its founding assembly in Amsterdam in 1948, the WCC has declared that anti-Semitism is a "sin against God". Kobia said, "Are we ready to say that occupation is also a sin against God?" More...
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