The WCC Executive Committee welcomes and supports the statement of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCCCUSA) and together with them reiterates a call in this time of serious tension for the city of Ferguson that its citizens, law enforcement officials, justice-seekers, and others respond in a non-violent manner. We also join the NCCCUSA in expressing appreciation to the churches and faith communities in St Louis, Missouri who have declared themselves to be “sanctuary churches” and “sacred spaces.”
The WCC Executive Committee believes that the current situation in Missouri underlines the deep-rooted problems of race relations and racial profiling in the United States of America. We stress that the human dignity of everyone must be respected regardless of race, ethnicity, or culture, and the critical importance of justice being seen to be done.
Well I had a look at the WCC Executive Committee
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/about-us/organizational-structure/executive-committee/ExecutiveCommittee.pdf
and found that members come from nations like:
Kenya (serious problems of tribalism)
Congo (where there is a crisis of rape on a huge scale in the eastern Congo)
Nigeria (cannot protect its own people from massacre by ruthless jihadists, or its women and children from abduction)
Pakistan (frequent pogroms against Christians)
China (enough said)
Brazil (not a paragon of race relations, plus severe rich-poor divide)
Russia (the land of oligarchs) and so on.
Did somebody say something about motes and beams?
Thank you, Terry Tee.