“The current wars, with their increasing focus on targeting civilians, sometimes with genocidal intent, are leading whole societies into the space where collectively they will be subject to moral injury,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt
The World Council of Churches central committee expressed “deep lamentation and outrage” as the crisis in Palestine and Israel escalates to levels that flagrantly violate international humanitarian and human rights law as well as the most basic principles of morality
“We support the statement of the World Council of Churches executive committee on 15 May 2025 that condemns the atrocities being perpetrated in Gaza by the State of Israel, recognizing that the current government is pursuing policies that are not supported by many Israelis,” says The Rev’d John Gilmore, President of the National Council of Churches in Australia in this NCAA statement on the genocide in Gaza
“Who is Socrates among us today? Who is corrupting the youth by teaching them to hold the world in common against the efficiencies of the city? She’s not in the university, but in another of capitalism’s public squares, YouTube, and her name is Ms Rachel,” says Dr Peter Kline from St Francis College