...should I join WCRP?
YES, PLEASE!
WCRP allows people of different faiths, different continents, different backgrounds to link arms and work together for peace and justice. WCRP allows bridges of trust and understanding to be built, hope to be renewed, forgiveness and new beginnings to be a reality. It does not try to create one religion out of many. It does not seek to entice people from one faith to another. Instead respect and tolerance create the security whereby all can walk together on the path to peace.
YOUR MEMBERSHIP IS CRUCIAL if our work is to continue to exert its creative influence in our fragmented world.
NORMAL SUBSCRIPTIONS : £10 STUDENTS, SENIOR CITIZENS, UNWAGED : £3
Please enrol me as a member of WCRP
NAME..
ADDRESS..
I enclose my first subscription of £
Send to Miss Hannah Stanton, Secretary and Assistant Treasurer, WCRP, 30 Burtons Road, Hampton Hill, Middlesex, TW12 1DA. (Tel: 01 943 1336)
Please make your cheque/money order payable to 'WCRP'.
Useful addresses for information:
WCRP/International
14 Chemin Auguste-Vilbert, 1218 Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland.
WCRP/International
777 United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017, U.S.A.
Canon Gordon Wilson
Centre of International Peacebuilding, South Bank House,
London SE1 75J
Wickham House
10 Cleveland Way London E1 4TR
EXTRACTS FROM
THE NAIROBI DECLARATION
In Nairobi in 1984, 600 of us have come from 60
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countries Buddhist, Christian, Confucian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Muslim, Shinto, Sikh, Zoroastrian, the traditional cultures of Africa and North America, and others.
Wherever a conflict takes on the language and symbolism of our religious traditions, pitting one against the other it must be the business of WCRP to be involved.
ON DISARMAMENT, we call for an immediate freeze on all further nuclear weapons research, production and deployment; the strengthening of the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty; a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; a No First Use commitment on the part of Nuclear nations.
ON DEVELOPMENT, we have a vision of a world in which the economic and political structures which perpetuate injustice and poverty are completely changed, and in which the armaments necessary to maintain these structures of injustice and oppression may be turned to ploughshares for the work of peace.
ON HUMAN RIGHTS, we must resist and unmask the selective and tactical use of human rights issues by nations, especially the US and the USSR which raise their voices in one instance and ignore violations in another, as suits their political ends. Wherever and in whatever way violations occur it is our concern, internationally and inter-religiously.
ON PEACE EDUCATION, we pledge ourselves to stressing and raising to public consciousness the foundation of peacemaking within our own religious traditions, through education in temples, churches, mosques, synagogues and homes.
The spiritual resources of our religious traditions give us strength to dedicate ourselves to the tasks ahead. We are compelled to turn the faith and hope that sustains us into dynamic action for human dignity and world peace.