Letter
Communiqué from the Coordination of Episcopal Conferences in Support of the Church in Holy Land, January, 12, 2012
Communique Coordination of Episcopal Conference in Support Church in Holy Land, January 12, 2012
"We, the Bishops of the Holy Land Coordination, have met in the Holy Land since 1998, to be in solidarity with the local Christian community and share in the pastoral life of the local Church. While the faith we see in the Christians of the Holy Land is an inspiration to all, we have heard repeatedly and have seen ourselves that occupation and insecurity, fear and frustration dominate the life of people across this land. Blaming the other is an abdication of responsibility and a failure of leadership, a leadership that the people so desperately need. We have heard and we make this conviction our own: to be pro-Israeli has to mean being pro-Palestinian. This means being pro-justice for all, whose certain fruit is lasting peace."
Signatories to the Holy Land Coordination Communique 2012 are:
- Archbishop Patrick Kelly, Archbishop of Liverpool (England and Wales)
- Archbishop Riccardo Fontana, Bishop of Arezzo‐Cortona‐Sansepolcro, (Italy)
- Archbishop Richard Smith, Archbishop of Edmonton (Canada)
- Archbishop Joan‐Enric Vives I Sicilia, Bishop of Urgell (Spain)
- Bishop Gerald Kicanas, Bishop of Tucson (USA)
- Bishop Heinrich Mussinghoff, Bishop of Aachen (Germany)
- Bishop Michel Dubost, Bishop of Evry (France)
- Bishop Pierre Burcher, Bishop of Reykjavik (Nordic Bishops' Conference)
- Bishop William Kenney, Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham (England and Wales)