Advocacy Statements for Peace

The following list of documents includes letters, statements and press releases, starting with the most recent, issued by the National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East. You are welcome to copy any of these to share with others. The concerns expressed in the most recent NILI advocacy statements provide useful guidelines for communicating with Secretary of State Rice and with members of Congress.

Click on a document to open it. (This will require a PDF reader, which most computers already have; if you need to install it, click on the icon to install the Adobe Acrobat version.)

Letter to Secretary of State Rice for a comprehensive, permanent Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire, March 20, 2008

Urgent Letter to the President by 28 Jewish, Christian and Muslim Leaders, January 30, 2008

After the Annapolis Conference: What Needs to Happen; Talking Points for Public Advocacy, December 2007

NILI Press Release with Specific Concerns re: Annapolis Conference and Next Steps, November 21, 2007

Letter to Secretary of State Rice re: Annapolis Peace Conference, November 1, 2007

NILI Press Release re: Annapolis Peace Conference, August 17, 2007

Arab-Israeli-Palestinian Peace: From Crisis to Hope, December 12, 2006, with List of Endorsers

Letter to Secretary of State Rice, December 12, 2006

Appeal to President Bush to Make Israel-Palestinian Peace a Priority in U.S. Policy, February 28, 2006

Letter to President Bush on Committment to Achieving Arab-Israeli-Palestinian Peace, April 14, 2005

Remarks at the National Press Club on Peace for the Middle East, by William Cardinal Keeler, April 14, 2005

Urgent Appeal to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, June 1, 2004

Press Release Urging Administration for Full Implementation of the Road Map to Peace, June 1, 2004

Congressional 'Dear Colleague' Letter in Support of This Initiative, December 3, 2003

Twelve Urgent Steps for Peace, December 2, 2003

Letter to President Bush on Interreligious Leadership Initiative on Peace in the Middle East, November 25, 2003

Signatories to These Two Documents

Cardinal McCarrick's Remarks at the Press Conference, December 2, 2003