That justice and peace might embrace
Archbishop Stephen Cottrell visiting Susya Credit: Andrea Krogmann In Advent we light candles of hope in a world where the news is often a litany of war, occupation, hunger and oppression. The darkness of genocide still overshadows Gaza, where the killing and restriction of humanitarian aid continues despite the ceasefire. While the focus of international …
It was mentioned in the recent newsletter but we would like to draw your attention to the visit next week of the Rev Ashraf Tannous to Belfast. He is the pastor of the Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. This month he is visiting England and Northern Ireland. In England he is meeting with churches and …
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Martyn Turner’s cartoon sums up Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan for me. The cartoon depicts President Trump, the Don of Peace, with a laurel twig in his mouth flying past some birds. One bird says of the plan, ‘It’s crazy.’  The other bird says, ‘But let’s hope it works.’ After two years of death, destruction and displacement in Gaza of course we all want the peace plan to work. We want hostages and prisoners to be freed, the killing to end and a full resumption of aid for the people of Gaza. But we also want an end to the occupation of Palestinian territory by Israel and the right to self-determination for the Palestinian people. Without justice and freedom for Palestine a permanent peace is unlikely to be forthcoming from this plan.Â
The grim news about events in Gaza gets worse with the decision of the Israeli war cabinet to extend the scope of the war to a full military occupation of the Gaza strip. Gazans are still being starved. Hostages have not been freed. Journalists are being assassinated. People seeking food are being shot. At least …
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Ongoing Nakba The 15th of May marked the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, when Zionist forces ethnically cleansed Palestinians from over 500 Palestinian villages in 1948. Nakba continues today with the genocide in Gaza. Under the leadership of the suspected war criminal, Netanyahu, Israel has become a pariah state. It continues to bomb schools and …
Kairos Palestine Easter Appeal This year, Palestinian Christians in their Easter appeal ask the existential question, will the ‘living stones’, the indigenous Christian community of Palestine, endure or fade into history. The appeal says – ‘The threats facing us and all Palestinians—land confiscation, forced displacement, physical assaults and violent arrests, targeted killings, movement restrictions, economic …
On March 26th Dr Nicholas Taylor of the School of Divinity, Edinburgh University gave a talk to Kairos Ireland "Title Deeds to the Holy Land?". We can now provide a recording of this very interesting talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyHyZg1wqc For those who would like to dive deeper into some of the topics covered in the talk there …
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An online meeting will be held on Wednesday the 26th March at 19.30 when Dr Nicholas Taylor, a biblical scholar at the School of Divinity, New College, University of Edinburgh, will examine some of the texts that are used to justify land claims by the modern state of Israel. For example, the Israeli ‘Jewish Nation …
An appeal from Kairos Palestine The Palestinian Christian organisation, Kairos Palestine, has issued an appeal for people worldwide to support a petition by FOSNA (Friends of Sabeel North America) to the American administration not to support policies of forced displacement in the Holy Land. I copy the email from Kairos Palestine below. This petition is …
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A Betrayal of Justice: Kairos Palestine Rejects Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Proposal and calls for Global Action Please read the statement issued on behalf of Palestinian Christians in response to President Trump’s plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its people and build a ‘Riviera on the Med’. Kairos Palestine calls on all people of goodwill throughout the …
