By: office|22 February, 2012|Categories: Wave of Prayer
Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 23rd February 2012. We cry out with the families of the seven children killed in the horrendous traffic accident, near Jabaa’ checkpoint last week. We are thankful for the individual acts of courage by teachers and eye-witnesses who rushed to the scene. Nearby villagers threw water on the burning bus, as the ambulances…
Read more »Detangling the Holocaust from Israeli-Palestinian politics by Moriel Rothman. When the first thought that came to mind on International Holocaust Remembrance Day was how the Holocaust is discussed in relation to Israeli-Palestinian politics, Jerusalem-based writer Moriel Rothman set out to find a different way of thinking. (Source: Common Ground News Service, 14 February 2012). Click here for the article
Read more »The life of a heart: Muslims and Jews saving lives together by Mehnaz M. Afridi. Headlines tell us that Muslims and Jews have little in common, but Mehnaz Afridi, Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College, counters them with stories of individuals working together across faith lines – even in divided Jerusalem. (Source: Common…
Read more »Palestinian Christians ask: Why do church leaders forsake us? An article by Bernard Kilroy in Palestine News, Winter 2012: click here
Read more »Sabeel Wave of Prayer - Thursday 16th February 2012 We pray for Khader Adnan, who is near death, and being held without charge in an Israeli jail. He began a hunger strike over 60 days ago, to draw attention to the injustices against Palestinians, especially within the Israeli prison system. An Israeli judge recently placed him on four more months of…
Read more »Read Deuteronomy 10:18-19 and 24:17-22 about what is required of God’s people. Then read the following 2 articles: Israeli Occupation Builds Villas for Carmel Settlers, Destroys the Hut of their Widow Neighbor. YOU Can Do Something about it, Assaf Oron Miyaser Al-Hatheleen is a 45-year-old woman living in Umm al-Kheir, South Hebron Hills. Her house was first demolished by the…
Read more »See below for 2 articles about the Citizenship Law that has recently been confimed in the Knessett. Israel ‘denied residency to thousands of Palestinians’ BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli policies have arbitrarily denied thousands of Palestinians the right to live in or travel to and from the West Bank and Gaza, an international rights group said Sunday. “Israel’s control over…
Read more »By: office|08 February, 2012|Categories: Wave of Prayer
Sabeel Wave of Prayer, Thursday, February 9, 2012 The outer walls of the Jerusalem Monastery of the Cross now display the words “Death to Christians.” The graffiti bears the marks of “Price Tag,” a Jewish extremist movement which has been responsible for vandalism also on Muslim places of worship and homes in Palestine. Reports from various news sources state…
Read more »God rules all in 2012 Israel, even the state. “Israel: Not what you thought, not what the world thought, not what Israelis imagine themselves to think. Israeli society isn’t secular, it isn’t liberal and it isn’t enlightened”. To see the article by Gideon Levy for Haaretz.com click here
Read more »By: office|01 February, 2012|Categories: Wave of Prayer
Sabeel Wave of Prayer – Thursday 2nd February 2012 How many times must a house get knocked down, before the bulldozers will halt? The Israeli army demolished Beit Arabiya, the Peace Center of the Israeli Coalition Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD), for the fifth time last week. They also destroyed structures of Bedouins in the Anata area, leaving 20 people, including…
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