<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Praise for Christian advocacy from the Moderator of the United Church of Canada.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The United Church of Canada <news@united-church.ca><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Thank You! Your Advocacy Is Changing Minds</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">December 20, 2023 at 10:43:49 AM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><allan.baker7878@gmail.com><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The United Church of Canada <news@united-church.ca><br></span></div><br><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><center style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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color: rgb(8, 76, 158); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">wrote to Prime Minister Trudeau</a>, to acknowledge with thanks Canada’s change in position regarding a ceasefire in the Middle East. </span></span></p><p paraeid="{f837b905-3fc6-46f6-998e-872265ab9421}{199}" paraid="1066883858" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">“We appreciate the recent Canadian Government action, and we encourage further steps pressing also for on an end to the occupation, in line with Canada’s own foreign policy regarding Israel-Palestine, and within international law,” they wrote. </span></span></p><p paraeid="{f837b905-3fc6-46f6-998e-872265ab9421}{209}" paraid="1197701292" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">After more than 60 days of death, devastation and destruction heaped on Gaza and endangering the hostages still imprisoned, we are relieved that our Government has listened to the massive outcry from Canadians. </span></span></p><p paraeid="{f837b905-3fc6-46f6-998e-872265ab9421}{219}" paraid="1227169012" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">If Prime Minister Trudeau has changed his language around the current conflict in the Middle East, it is due in no small part to those such as you – who have engaged in this difficult and complex conflict by writing to MPs, joining in larger organized protests and supporting community members who have family members caught in the conflict. </span></span></p><p paraeid="{f837b905-3fc6-46f6-998e-872265ab9421}{243}" paraid="461619715" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">These efforts of United Church people across the country are seen, and heard, and have played an important part in pressuring the Canadian government to urge a ceasefire. </span></span></p><p paraeid="{20831b5e-3772-4038-bdcc-3a074a15f74f}{8}" paraid="560504484" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you. </span></span></p><p paraeid="{20831b5e-3772-4038-bdcc-3a074a15f74f}{14}" paraid="3987742" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">To keep up the pressure for actions towards peace and justice in the Middle East, please also continue, as you’re able, to: </span></span></p><ul role="list"><li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="0" data-font="Calibri" data-leveltext="•" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":1080,"335559991":720,"469769226":"Calibri","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="1" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{20831b5e-3772-4038-bdcc-3a074a15f74f}{24}" paraid="962723752" style="margin: 1em 0px; 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