The Government of the United States of America and the Government of Japan welcome the renewed international attention and commitment to achieve the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons and confirm their determination to realize such a world. They welcome, in this context, the recent United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Summit on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament and UNSC Resolutions 1540 and 1887, as well as the resolution of the Government of Japan, co-sponsored by the Government of the United States, to the United Nations General Assembly entitled "Renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons."
Application for Peace with Justice Grants Witness Team, Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference The United Methodist Church
A primary purpose of the Peace with Justice mini grant is to help provide seed money for new programs or projects and/or to assist with special needs associated with new phases of ongoing projects sponsored by Oregon-Idaho local churches, church members or church agencies, and organizations who resource local churches.
Many nations will come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths. The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.’ Every man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the Lord Almighty has spoken.
– Micah 4:2-4 NIV
The meeting of The United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society directors coincides with the sixth anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Iraq. We are deeply grieved by the continuing conflict and loss of life on all sides, and pray for its earliest possible end. The United Methodist Church has long advocated peaceful negotiations as the best means to resolve disputes between nations and peoples. As Christians we are called to seek every means of establishing justice and solving disputes nonviolently to replace enduring conflicts with enduring peace. Nowhere is this more important than in the Middle East, a region fraught with enduring conflicts.
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