Religious leaders appeal to Bush to take the lead in Mideast peace process

Religious leaders appeal to Bush to take the lead in Mideast peace process
SIOBHAN McDONOUGH, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, January 13, 2005


(01-13) 09:14 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --

Leaders of Jewish, Christian and Muslim groups urged President Bush on Thursday to discuss a renewed role by the United States in Mideast peace initiatives.

With a newly elected Palestinian leadership and Israel's plans to withdraw from Gaza, the United States should take a higher profile role, religious leaders said in its public appeal to the president.

"This is an unprecedented initiative that brings a powerful moral voice to a pivotal issue at a pivotal time," Baltimore Cardinal William Keeler said of the coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim groups pressing the president to make Mideast peace a top priority.

Coordinating with 35 national religious leaders are leaders in more than a dozen cities including Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Hartford and New Haven, Conn., Baltimore, Charlotte and Durham, N.C., and Washington, D.C.

The leaders are asking that Bush:

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Bush doesn't listen to those.

Look at how he has managed to drive everything he has touched into the ground.

asking the Klan to lead a civil rights march.

everything he touches!

(Just kidding)

if youre trying to derail the peace process!

These leaders must be fanatics or corporates in disguise!