By: office|30 May, 2012|Categories: Wave of Prayer
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Sabeel Wave of Prayer - Thursday 31st May 2012 As the temperature increases across the region, so has settler violence. Palestinian firefighters extinguished a blaze started by Israeli settlers near Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank, earlier this week. Hundreds of acres of olive groves and crops burned. This incident was one of several over the weekend; some of the settler’s violent…
Read more »Clergy and spouses meeting/trip – Jericho and Taybeh, April 2012 Every year after Easter, Sabeel organizes a meeting for the clergy and their wives as a way to exchange Easter greetings and help them relax after the busy season. This year, 21 clergy and spouses attended the event in Jericho. The meeting started at 10am with a spiritual reflection given…
Read more »Well-known Beit Jala restaurant destroyed by Israel, again Beit Jala (EI) 21 May by Ryan Brownell — In the early morning of Thursday, 3 May, representatives from several human rights organizations were scheduled to have breakfast in the popular al-Makhrour restaurant near Bethlehem. The purpose for the scheduled workshop was to discuss house demolitions and property confiscation by Israeli forces…
Read more »By: office|23 May, 2012|Categories: Wave of Prayer
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Sabeel Wave of Prayer - Thursday 24th May 2012 Around the globe people are writing prayers, hosting gatherings, and creating initiatives for the upcoming world week for peace in Palestine and Israel, May 28-June 3, 2012. The Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum of the World Council of Churches coordinates the week. We lift up to God all who will participate; that through this…
Read more »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…
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