The World Evangelical Alliance’s Peace & Reconciliation Network (PRN) has teams of church members and leaders, practitioners, and theologians throughout the world who envision Christians becoming God’s reconciling presence in a fractured world. By inspiring, equipping, and connecting, PRN enables churches, communities and societies to live in God’s...
Dr. Salim Munayer – PRN MENA Regional Coordinator
Since the recent escalation in tensions between the Israel/US bloc and Iran, I have frequently heard in social gatherings that this conflict is a religious war. Any attempt to offer an alternative perspective is often met with anger or outright dismissal. However, I would like to present a...
Today throughout Africa communities continue to suffer under internal, intercultural, religious, and political tensions, as well as injustice and abuse of power. These ethnic conflicts are the origin of present violence and civil wars.
The world is crying out for good news Christians have been called to reveal.
The tragic conflict in the Holy Land has provoked intense anguish, concern, and equally conflicting responses among evangelical Christians around the world. As an organization that represents evangelicals globally, including those in both Israel and Palestine, the World Evangelical Alliance cannot adopt or endorse a political position, but we know...
This reflection is sourced in the contextual experience of the Middle East North Africa Peace and Reconciliation Network (MENA PRN) team to further understanding and remove barriers to peace and reconciliation.
The following reflection is sourced in the firsthand current experience of PRN Caucasus Regional Coordinator, Craig Simonian, from the dynamic and fluid crisis in the Artsakh region of Azerbaijan and is intended to raise awareness and awaken Christians around the world to pray and advocate for mercy, justice, and peace.
As local and global conflicts increase, processes of peace and reconciliation are crucial for creating a better future for all people, the societies they create and inhabit, and the whole of creation. The Peace and Reconciliation Network, a commission of the World Evangelical Alliance, believes faith communities, and particularly evangelical...
How can we foster shared understanding and action? This was the question being considered 13 months ago by a small group representing the World Evangelical Alliance’s Peace & Reconciliation Network, The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, and the Canadian Council of Churches.
Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh are enduring great suffering. The World Evangelical Alliance’s Peace & Reconciliation Network (PRN) invites your awareness of the current reality and consider how you might respond in prayer, friendship with those who are part of the vast Armenian diaspora around the world, and action (which could include financially...
The following is a response to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA), and debates surrounding their adoption and use. This reflection is sourced in the contextual experience of the Middle East North Africa Peace and Reconciliation Network (PRN) team and is...
With the world facing new, renewed and expanded conflicts and polarities, United Nations has called for A New Agenda for Peace. The World Evangelical Alliance welcomes the opportunity to speak to this and has made the following submission. We invite the global Evangelical family to consider deeply and prayerfully how we, as followers of the Prince...
The images are more or less the same every day - women with children crossing the borders between Ukraine and the EU states.
Portuguese, Dutch, British, Che’ Guevara, Tamil Tigers, political opportunists and religious extremists – you name it, Sri Lanka has experienced its share of violence from these various groups spread over many centuries. A small island, one would think would not attract any attention from the rest of the world. It has no oil, little natural...
