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Speaker responds: Far too many Evangelicals acritically ‘stand with Israel’
Ruth Padilla DeBorst, an associate professor at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, speaks at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Incheon, South Korea, on Sept. 23, 2024. | The Christian Post/Hudson Tsuei
INCHEON, South Korea — The Lausanne Congress apologized Wednesday to the many delegates who were offended by a speaker’s comments rebuking dispensational eschatology and her claim that Israel was holding hostages.
Ruth Padilla DeBorst, an associate professor at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, stirred controversy on the second night of the Fourth Lausanne Global Congress on World Evangelism when she said both Hamas terrorists and Israel were holding hostages.
“There's no room for indifference towards all who are suffering the scourge of war and violence. The world around the uprooted and beleaguered people of Gaza, the hostages held by both Israel and Hamas and their families, the threatened Palestinians in their own territories,” she said near the end of her 16-minute speech to the dismay of some delegates.
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INCHEON, South Korea — The Lausanne Congress apologized Wednesday to the many delegates who were offended by a speaker’s comments rebuking dispensational eschatology and her claim that Israel was holding hostages.
Ruth Padilla DeBorst, an associate professor at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, stirred controversy on the second night of the Fourth Lausanne Global Congress on World Evangelism when she said both Hamas terrorists and Israel were holding hostages.
“There's no room for indifference towards all who are suffering the scourge of war and violence. The world around the uprooted and beleaguered people of Gaza, the hostages held by both Israel and Hamas and their families, the threatened Palestinians in their own territories,” she said near the end of her 16-minute speech to the dismay of some delegates.
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Lausanne apologizes for speaker’s comments on Israel, dispensational eschatology
The Lausanne Congress apologized Wednesday to the many delegates who were offended by a speaker s comments rebuking dispensational eschatology and her claim that Israel was holding hostages
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