I was wondering about that "500 million Christians" number myself. Where did they pull THAT number out of? That would be essentially all of the world's 2 billion Christians who AREN'T Catholic.
It would have to include all the Orthodox.
And I doubt that. I seriously doubt that the Orthodox Church has signed up with the World Council of Churches.
Perhaps there are a couple of newly self-declared "orthodox" churches that have, but I would be stunned to discover that the REAL Orthodox Church, under the leadership of the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Patriarch of Moscow and others, have signed up with the UCC to instruct their members to divest from Israel.
That seems radically alien to the Orthodox "style".
Perhaps our Orthodox brethren can enlighten us: is the Orthodox Church part of the WCC? Are they teaching divestment from Israel?
If not, then there's only about 300 million Christians left, and that would include the Amish, the Southern Baptists, and other evangelical groups who I SERIOUSLY DOUBT are out there beating the drums of divestment.
Take the Catholics, Orthodox and Baptists out of the mix, and you've got, what? Maybe 200 million Christians TOTAL left in the world. I don't believe that all, or most, are in the WCC.
Actually, I rather suspect the WCC is probably limited to those churches that support abortion, and that's a dwindling sliver of dying sects, not half a billion Christians by any means.
I just made a call to the Archdiocese which knows nothing of this and does not support this sort of activity. The party I spoke to also opined that the WCC had some real nutcases in it and he wasn't surprised if they tried to use the membership of the Orthodox Churches in the WCC as some kind of validation for this stuff. They have done that before.
Out of your 300 million the Baptists are the overwhelming majority, I would think. Then you have the Anglicans, who aren't so liberal outside of the US and England. They total about 80 million, with the ECUSA comprising less than 2 mill of that total.