Welcome
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Click HERE to watch AFPI’s Jan. 16, 2009 News Conference
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The Abrahamic Faiths Peacemaking Initiative (AFPI) is a group of American clergy and religious activists who advocate peacemaking as an essential and defining mandate of our three faith traditions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam. By bringing together a collection of each faith’s relevant teachings, we aim to contribute an authentic and substantive religious voice to the current peace movement, to activate Americans of faith to insist on peaceful solutions to local, national and global conflicts, and in particular to end the war and U.S. occupation in Iraq.
What if all of the patriarch Abraham’s descendants could understand that peacemaking is not simply one option or an unattainable ideal, but it is in fact a mandate from the heart of faith that cannot be ignored? Such a transformation is possible, and the theological basis for transformation exists in each Abrahamic tradition.
The Abrahamic Faiths Peacemaking Initiative was assembled to effect this transformation in religious communities, to have a powerful impact on policymakers, and to end the misguided and unjust war in which the United States is currently mired.
Peace is a practical substitute for violence and war, and Judaism, Christianity and Islam all require that we vigorously and faithfully pursue peace and justice for all.