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ELCA Presiding Bishop Joins Christian Leaders in Letter on Mideast Talks

From <NEWS@ELCA.ORG>
Date Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:40:14 -0500

Title: ELCA Presiding Bishop Joins Christian Leaders in Letter on 
Mideast Talks
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>August 31, 2010  

ELCA Presiding Bishop Joins Christian Leaders in Letter on Mideast 
Talks
10-233-JB

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Writing that they "have no illusions about the
difficulty of the task ahead," 28 Christian leaders urged U.S. 
President
Barack Obama and negotiators to continue their efforts to help 
leaders of
the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority reach a peace
agreement. The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the 
Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), was among those who signed an Aug. 
30
letter to Obama, released through Churches for Middle East Peace,
Washington, D.C.

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