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Children of Abraham should seek peace, Griswold tells Muslim website
2003-055-2
3/12/2003
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[Episcopal News Service]
'A superservant always has the welfare of the global community as their first concern rather than simply their own national interest,' said Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold recently in an online interview with the website SoundVision.com.
Emphasizing Griswold's stand for a peaceful solution to conflicts in the Middle East, the interview is aimed at the predominantly Muslim audience for the website, owned and operated by a Chicago-based foundation which produces documentary films, multimedia programs, Islamic songs, and original content on the World Wide Web for Muslim religious educational purposes.
'We are deeply concerned about the war on Iraq and feel that war is absolutely the last resort,' Griswold said, stressing that his opposition to war stems not only from his concern about the death and injury of civilians and destruction of property and infrastructure, but because of possible repercussions on the entire Middle East.
'Our church, being part of a worldwide community, is deeply aware of the ramifications, the intensification of anger, and misunderstanding and violence that war can occasion. Certainly our bishops in Muslim countries have said war could profoundly destabilize the Middle East and set in motion a situation disastrous for all of us,' Griswold said.
'We are all children of God,' Griswold concluded. 'God's compassion embraces all of us and how wonderful it would be if we, the children of Abraham, could find a new way to honor one another and work together to make the world a place of peace and justice.'
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