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Amid uncertainty around threatened Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank, Quaker Peace & Social Witness has joined American Friends Service Committee and Friends Committee on National Legislation to express their deep concern. They say annexation would make permanent a system of inequality and would deny justice to Palestinians whose rights have already been violated. The full text of their …

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Love is seeing the face of God in every human being.  Every person is my brother or my sister.  However, seeing the face of God in everyone does not mean accepting evil or aggression on their part.  Rather, this love seeks to correct the evil and stop the aggression.  (Kairos Palestine: a confession of faith and …

Black Lives Matter: A Declaration of Solidarity from Kairos Palestine Read More »

Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust emerged out of conversation between two academic colleagues, Duncan Macpherson and the late Fr. Michael Prior.[1] They were mulling over their experiences of leading student groups to the Holy Land. Michael, who was Biblical scholar, had also just returned from a year-long study sabbatical at the world leading École …

A Short History of Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust Read More »

A Statement by three former Heads of Churches in Jerusalem on the Israeli Annexation plans Grace and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ. Greetings from the Land of the Holy One, Israel and Palestine. The Holy Land is in fire, in a situation of war, and needs to be restored to its holiness. It is …

This is the Holy Land (Exodus 3:5). It Needs Justice and Only Justice Read More »

Today, H.E. Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States, was contacted by telephone by H.E. Saeb Erekat, Chief negotiator and Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The latter wished to inform the Holy See about recent developments in the Palestinian territories and of the possibility of Israeli applying its sovereignty unilaterally to …

Holy See Statement on Palestine Read More »

Our AGM took place on 16th November 2019 at Our Lady of Victories Church, Kensington, London. This was preceded by the Michael Prior Lecture entitled “An Unholy Mess” given by Chris Doyle, of the Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding (CAABU).

How Evangelical Christians risk setting the Middle East on fire by Jonathan Cook (8 July 2019)