Christ’s Peace in Racial and Ethnic Conflict (updated for 2025)

“Christians who, by their action or inaction, add to the brokenness of the world, seriously undermine our witness to the gospel of peace.”

-The Cape Town Call To Action, 2011

Christ's Peace in Racial and Ethnic Conflict

• Ethnic diversity is the gift and plan of God in creation. It has been spoiled by human sin and pride, resulting in confusion, strife, violence and war in and among nations.

• We fail to respect the ethnic and racial identity of others and ignore the deep wounds that such long-term disrespect causes.

• We acknowledge with grief and shame the complicity of Christians in some of the most destructive contexts of ethnic and racial violence and oppression, and the lamentable silence of large parts of the Church when such conflicts take place.

• If the gospel is not deeply rooted in the context, challenging and transforming worldviews and systems of injustice, then, when the evil day comes, Christian allegiance is discarded like an unwanted cloak and people revert to unregenerated loyalties and actions.

• We long for the day when the Church will be the world's most visibly shining model of ethnic and racial reconciliation and its most active advocate for conflict resolution.

- from the Cape Town Commitment, 2011

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https://lausanne.org/content/ctcommitment

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