We, the participants of the conference on “Embracing Solidarities through Sharing Stories of
Struggles to Resist Empires”, a four day consultation organized by Global Kairos for Asia
Pacific Palestine Solidarity (GKAPPS) in collaboration with the Academy for Contextual
Theologies in Taiwan (ACTT), from April 27 to 30, 2022, seek to express our radical
solidarity with the people in Palestine in their struggles to overcome the decades-long
colonial/apartheid regime that deprives them of their fundamental human rights, including the
right to life. We, a multi religious group from around 21 countries, also call upon the religious
communities and civil society movements in the Asia-Pacific region and around the Globe to
act decisively to address the brutal and horrific situations of Nakba that the Palestinians have
been facing for more than seven decades.
The conference was a follow up to a one-year study initiated by GKAPPS under the prophetic
leadership of the late Prof. Kim Yong Bock.
Statement – Embracing solidarities by sharing struggles against Empires