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Just Peace Advocates and the Palestinian Canadian Congress as you to send a letter to the Canadian Council of Churches and its member churches asking then to publicly support the new call from Palestinian Christians and take concrete action to put the call into action.

Palestinians called out to the world in the 2009 Kairos Palestine “Moment of Truth: a word of faith, hope and love from the heart of Palestinian suffering.”

With this Kairos Palestine set in motion a global movement, rousing the churches to action and awakening civil society to the reality of Palestinian suffering. However, the response was and continues to be wholly insufficient.

In June 2017 on the 50^th year of the occupation an open letter from Christians in Palestine to the National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine (NCCOP) was sent to the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement saying “[w]e are on the verge of a catastrophic collapse. This could be our last chance to achieve a just peace.”

Still Canadian churches remained silent, not signing the 2020  “Cry for Hope” to the international Christian community. 

Now after more than two years of genocide, Kairos II, A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide was released at the 16^th Kairos Conference in Bethlehem in November 2025. Kairos II names the genocide in Gaza, the “silent genocide” in the West Bank, and the ethnic cleansing and apartheid across historic Palestine.

To read more, check out the full post on our website.

It is certainly well past time for the Canadian Council of Churches and its member denominations and affiliates to speak out, and support the call from Christian churches in Palestine. During over two years of genocide, the Canadian Council of Churches made one pathetic statement that did not name Israel’s occupation, apartheid, nor genocide, writing as if Gaza was a natural disaster of some sort, stating solidarity with Israelis and asking the Israeli government to allow aid.

Ask the Canadian Council of Churches and its members and affiliates how they can speak of Christian fellowship or communion while denying, supporting, justifying, or remaining silent in the face of genocide.

TAKE ACTION: Send a letter to the Canadian Council of Churches and its members.

As a Christian Palestinian denied since 1948 the inalienable right to return to my homeland, I view the silence of the Canadian Council of Churches—while a regime found by leading UN bodies and human rights organizations to be inflicting apartheid, occupation, and genocide on indigenous Palestinians—as a profound moral and legal failure, betraying both Christian ethics and Canada’s stated values.

Khaled Mouammar, A Christian Palestinian Arab Semite from Nazareth denied the right to return since 1948 because of my religious and ethno-cultural category. former  president of the Canadian Arab Federation and a former member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.

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