{"id":6466,"date":"2015-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/mwc-urges-solidarity-with-calls-for-peaceful-solution-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T18:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:38:49","slug":"mwc-urges-solidarity-calls-peaceful-solution-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/mwc-urges-solidarity-calls-peaceful-solution-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"MWC urges solidarity with calls for peaceful solution in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bogot\u00e1, Colombia \u2013 \u201cWe want to partner with our brothers and sisters in the West and in Ukraine to call for a negotiated diplomatic settlement to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis conflict cannot be solved with violence. Both NATO and Russia are too strong to be defeated by military means\u2026. The costs of a military \u2018solution\u2019 are way too high for any side to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/website_files\/ukraine_peace_-_ruecb_statement_en.pdf\">This appeal<\/a> was issued in a 05 February letter from The Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists to \u201cdear friends in Christ primarily in North America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter expresses particular concern that the 18 December signing of the \u201cFreedom Support Act\u201d by the United States could bring \u201ca serious military escalation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian society too is far from perfect,\u201d stated the letter. \u201cPray for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mennonite World Conference has sent <a href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/website_files\/ukraine_peace_-_mwc_letter_to_ruecb_en.pdf\">assurances of prayer and solidarity<\/a> to the Russian church.<\/p>\n<p>MWC is also sending a <a href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/website_files\/ukraine_peace_-_mwc_letter_to_churches_2015_en.pdf\">letter<\/a> to its 102 member churches, urging them to pray for the church in Russia and to use whatever opportunities they have to ask political leaders to consider other than military options in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><em>MWC release<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bogot\u00e1, Colombia \u2013 \u201cWe want to partner with our brothers and sisters in the West and in Ukraine to call for a negotiated diplomatic settlement to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. \u201cThis conflict cannot be solved with violence. 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