A coalition of churches appealed to the Bush administration to restrain Israel and calm the crisis in the Gaza Strip. Churches for Middle East Peace, a Washington-based group of 21 Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant churches that receives reports from Palestinian partner organizations, sent letters Thursday to Michael Doran of the National Security Council and to David Welch, the top State Department envoy to the Middle East.
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