Peace Churches Meet with Iranian President

A coalition of “peace” churches from the U.S. and Canada held a meeting with the controversial Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, earlier this week (9/25/07) at the Church Center for the United Nations in New York. The ecumenical group consisted of 100 religious leaders who say that engaging in a dialogue with the Iranian leader is the only way to peacefully handle the political, economic and religious conflicts between the U.S. and Iran. While a wide variety of religions attended the discussion, there was no Jewish representation—a rather glaring omission. This meeting occurred after Ahmadinejad was greeted with extreme hostility at Columbia University, his first stop in the U.S.

To read the release click here.

To read a story in the New York Times about the meeting, click here.

Laura