The Ekklesia website reports today (April 7, 2011) that the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, has sent condolences to the UN, as it mourns the tragic loss of UN staff in Afghanistan in a violent response to the burning last month of a copy of the Quran in the state of Florida.
The WCC -- which works to promote positive relations between sincere people of different faiths -- deplored the degrading actions of Pastor Terry Jones in the USA.
"It is with great sadness that we received the news of the killing of eight staff members of the United Nations Operation Center in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif," Dr. Tveit said in a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The letter also said that "the entire membership of the WCC firmly rejects the actions of burning the Quran or any holy book and we feel deeply grieved by this reprehensible action conducted by a small group of people who manipulate others in the name of Christianity."
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