Statement: Confronting Racism and Xenophobia, Overcoming Discrimination, Ensuring Belonging 

This major statement from the WCC Assembly urges confronting racism, revisiting “complicity of some religious bodies”

 Declaring that “there is no justification in either faith or science for the racism, xenophobia and discrimination that we are witnessing in the world,” the leadership of the World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee adopted a public statement that condemns these social forces.

The statement was prepared by the Public Issues Committee at the WCC 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany, September 2022.

Speaking in particular to stateless people who suffer from discrimination, the statement affirms the recently developed Interfaith Affirmations on Belongingness, which encourage interfaith cooperation to eradicate statelessness. 

Read the full statement:

Statement on Confronting Racism and Xenophobia, Overcoming Discrimination, Ensuring Belonging

Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness (Genesis 1:26)

Read the WCC article:  WCC Statement urges Confronting Racism and Xenophobia, Overcoming Discrimination, Ensuring Belonging | World Council of Churches 16 September 2022

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