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Press Release: Six Minutes till Midnight |
For Immediate Release: Jan. 14, 2010
Contact: Sarah Kropp, 202-789-1011
The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) welcomes the progress toward greater global peace and security highlighted by prominent scientists who today moved the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock back by one minute. It is now, they say, six minutes till midnight.
Evangelicals have long prayed and worked for peace. A 1952 NAE resolution asserts that “the American posture should be that of peace, righteousness, faith and freedom.” The NAE’s groundbreaking work on peace, freedom and security studies in the 1980s emphasized the link between peace and human rights. The 2004 document “For the Health of the Nation” expresses the Church’s strong commitment to peace, justice, human rights, religious liberty, protecting children, families, God’s creation and the sanctity of human life.
Participants in the NAE’s 2009 Evangelical Leaders Forum considered strategies for preventing nuclear terrorism as well as addressed urgent environmental challenges. The NAE celebrates tangible progress being made in these important areas of concern.
At the same time, we grieve for the estimated 42 million unborn babies throughout the world who will be aborted this year, and the eight million children under five who will die from preventable diseases. For them, the clock strikes midnight each and every day.
For the longsuffering people of Haiti, a legacy of injustice and extreme poverty has multiplied the impact of natural disaster. Unknown numbers even now stand at death’s door. It is, for them, 11:59:59.
The prophet Isaiah spoke a word of hope to those living in the vicinity of midnight: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light” (Isaiah 9:2). Jesus said, “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12). He promised that those who follow him would have the “light of life” and would become the “light of the world” (Matthew 5:14). It is a light that is desperately needed in a world living at 11:54 p.m. |
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