In massive Shift Lutherans vote to halt US aid to Israel by Rodrick Bellar

In massive shift, Lutherans vote to halt US aid to Israel

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has become the latest US denomination to take economic action against the Israeli occupation. At its triennial assembly last week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the four million-member church, one of the largest in the US, voted on two separate resolutions targeting Israel’s occupation and human rights abuses, passing each by a landslide.