The Committee recommends concurrence as amended as follows:
Delete the sentence beginning with "This process" and ending with "Holocaust" so that the text reads:
...
It is particularly disturbing when religious values are used as a foundation
for persecution of select groups of people. This process has
characterized some of the church's bleakest history: the Crusades, Inquisition,
Pogroms, Slavery, and the Holocaust. It is crucially important that
Christians insist that all people are God's children who deserve the protection
of their human and civil rights. ...
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Calendar Item Text: 1800-NonDis1996 United Methodist General Conference