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The World Evangelical
Alliance Condemns Statement by Pat Robertson
For
Immediate Release
August 24, 2005
It is with great regret and deep concern
that the World Evangelical Alliance totally condemns
the recent speech by Dr. Pat Robertson calling for
the U.S. government to assassinate President Chavez
of Venezuela.
“This kind of statement, by
this well known American Christian leader, is in complete
contradiction to the teachings of Jesus Christ who
evangelical Christians believe and seek to demonstrate,”
says Geoff Tunnicliffe, WEA International Director.
He goes on to add, “Robertson does not speak
for evangelical Christians. We believe in justice
and the protection of human rights of all people,
including the life of President Chavez.”
Rev. Sam Olson, veteran pastor of
Las Acacias church in Caracas and president of the
Venezuelan Evangelical Alliance (associated with WEA)
has expressed deep concern for how this statement
will negatively impact evangelical Christians in Latin
America. He writes, “Robertson has placed our
lives in jeopardy as he has completely misrepresented
us and has given our government every reason to believe
we would support such an action.“
The World Evangelical Alliance calls
on Dr. Robertson to withdraw his statement and reconcile
his views with the orthodox Christian faith. The WEA
calls on all people, in particularly those of Venezuela,
to show restraint in how they react to such a statement,
knowing that it represents the opinion of one individual
and not that of the hundreds of millions of evangelical
Christians around the world.
World Evangelical Alliance is
a global network of 123 nations who each have formed
an evangelical church alliance. Nearly 3,000,000 local
churches and 380 million Christians identify with
these alliances.
In a spirit of servanthood to national and regional Evangelical Alliances, WEA exists to foster Christian unity and to provide a worldwide identity, voice and platform to Evangelical churches and Christians. Seeking empowerment by the Holy Spirit, they extend the Kingdom of God by proclamation of the Gospel to all nations and by Christ-centered transformation within society.
