{"id":12735,"date":"2009-05-11T01:42:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T01:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/religion_and_ethics_weekly_religion_and_peace_in_the_middle_east\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T01:42:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T01:42:48","slug":"religion_and_ethics_weekly_religion_and_peace_in_the_middle_east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12735","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Ethics Weekly: Religion and Peace in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: There\u2019s a little-known multifaith initiative also working for Middle East peace, with support from the U.S. government and visiting delegations of American Christians, Muslims and Jews. They say there can never be peace in the Holy Land without strong relationships between religious leaders. Kim Lawton is in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>KIM LAWTON: Just outside of Bethlehem, an American group is touring the Aida Palestinian refugee camp. These are not typical Holy Land pilgrims. It\u2019s is a delegation of Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders who are part of an American faith-based initiative to bolster peace in this land of conflict. Former U.S. Ambassador Tony Hall is heading the initiative, along with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador TONY HALL: I don\u2019t think any of us are under any illusions that we\u2019re going to solve the peace problem, but we also realize that you can\u2019t have peace without religious leaders, and that\u2019s why we come here and try to build these relationships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/may-8-2009\/religion-and-peace-in-the-middle-east\/2905\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: There\u2019s a little-known multifaith initiative also working for Middle East peace, with support from the U.S. government and visiting delegations of American Christians, Muslims and Jews. They say there can never be peace in the Holy Land<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12735\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,161,426,429,203,418,154,155,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-judaism","category-middle-east","category-orthodox-church","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}