By: office|16 May, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews
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Challenging Empire: God, Faithfulness and Resistance eds., Naim Ateek, Cedar Duaybis and Maureen Tobin, (Jerusalem: Sabeel Ecumenical Centre 2012). Price £12, pp.221. (Available from Friends of Sabeel UK: email ) For those Sabeel members who gathered in Bethlehem, February 2011, for the 8th International Sabeel Conference, this book has been eagerly anticipated: not only does it recall the heady excitement of…
Read more »By: office|16 May, 2012|Categories: Wave of Prayer
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Sabeel Wave of Prayer - Thursday 17th May 2012 News about the deal on behalf of the Palestinian political prisoners, 2,000 of whom were on hunger strike, is spreading across the country and world today. We are grateful that a deal was reached that includes improvements in prison conditions. We rejoice that the hunger strike has ended and the lives of…
Read more »FOSUK Conference and AGM 2012: ‘Embracing Justice – Sharing Jerusalem’ Saturday 19th May 2012, Oxford. Speakers: Naim Ateek and Mark Braverman. We look forward to welcoming our speakers and hope that many of you will be able to come – application form and programme. For further details see here or email info@friendsofsabeel.org.uk
Read more »How 60 Minutes Became a Terrorist Attack, By Lo Yuk Fai Above is an excerpt of the conversation between the host of 60 Minutes and the Israeli ambassador to the United States, from the 22-Apr installment about the dwindling local Christian community in Palestine/Israel. Governments’ manipulation and influence of the press is nothing new, but why would the Israeli government, an administration considered a…
Read more »From Rabbi’s for Human Rights – see Deut Chapter 1 v 16 and 17 for further reading and comparison. “The Civil Administration states facts in the OT and comes out strongly against the local resident” was written on the May 8, 2012 at 3:13 pm on “Rabbis for Human Rights”. 1.This week we had Abu Asama whose wife has…
Read more »By: office|09 May, 2012|Categories: Wave of Prayer
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Sabeel Wave of Prayer - Thursday 10th May 2012 We continue to pray for all who are Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. We pray for their families, friends and communities. Lord in your mercy… We grieve with all involved in last week’s Israeli Civil Administration-ordered demolition of a prominent restaurant in Area C of Beit Jala. Some of the drivers of…
Read more »Co-op Leads the Way The Co-op has announced that it will no longer trade with Israeli companies which source goods from illegal settlements. The Co-op’s new policy is an expansion of their previous commitment not to source settlement goods. As the fifth largest supermarket group in the UK, the Co-op is leading the ethical path that all supermarkets should be…
Read more »Support the Hunger Strikers – End the Media Blackout! Over 2,000 Palestinian prisoners have been on hunger strike since mid-April, protesting against the apartheid Israeli regime which holds them in its jails, many without charge or trial. Two of the prisoners, have been refusing food for more than 60 days and are reportedly close to death. There has been almost…
Read more »See item from America’s CBS News 60 Minutes programme Christians of the Holy Land . See also http://ThankYou60Minutes.org to sign a petition in support of the article.
Read more »By: office|02 May, 2012|Categories: Wave of Prayer
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Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 3rd May 2012 “Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured” (Hebrews 13:3). On May 8th, Sabeel Jerusalem will host an ecumenical and interfaith prayer meeting in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners, over 2,000 of whom…
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