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 “Our word is a cry of hope, with love, prayer and faith in God. We address it first of all to ourselves and then to all the churches and Christians in the world, asking them to stand against injustice and apartheid, urging them to work for a just peace.”

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In this historic document, we Palestinian Christians declare that the military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity, and that any theology that legitimizes the occupation is far from Christian teachings because true Christian theology is a theology of love and solidarity with the oppressed, a call to justice and equality among peoples.

To read the document, click here: http://www.kairospalestine.ps/?q=content/document 

To sign the document, click here: http://www.kairospalestine.ps/?q=node/19

It's a worrying and uncertain time right now for people across the globe, including in occupied #Palestine. Parts of the #WestBank remain on lock-down and already stretched #healthcare services face even greater challenges. We express our continued solidarity with all of those in the region.

With the complete lock-down on the city of #Bethlehem, we hear that the usual #Friday prayers at the separation barrier went ahead online tonight instead. In these very difficult circumstances, work for #peace and #justice can and will continue. Let us keep our creativity and inspiration.

We encourage you to keep following our social media in the coming weeks for more on how you can stay up to date and keep working for justice in these challenging times.

#CoronaCrisis #Palestine #Israel #Solidarity #FridayPrayers

 

Celebrating Women's History Month:The exhibition "Telling the Palestinian Story" features more than 200 works of art by women spanning painting, sculpture, photography, textiles and mixed media.

A painting by Haya Kaabneh, who depicts the hardships of women under occupation. Faisal Saleh / Palestine Museum US

A view of the exhibition ‘Enough …!’ by Nameer Qassim. Courtesy Faisal Saleh, Palestine Museum US

Jacqueline Bejani’s portraits capture famous Palestinian figures, such as Edward Said, seen far right. Faisal Saleh, Palestine Museum US

Preserving Palestinian History & Culture

 https://www.palestinemuseum.us/

Palestine Museum US was founded by Palestinian American businessman Faisal Saleh who, after over 40 years of entrepreneurial work, is turning his attention to managing the most ambitious Palestinian media project in the United States. Located in Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA

Museum aims to bring the work of 50 Palestinian women artists to one show

'good part of the work is that you can’t tell it’s Palestinian by looking at it – and that’s intentional,' says Palestinian-American entrepreneur Faisal Saleh

March is truly set to be a month of Sundays. Last Sunday marked the beginning of Women’s ­History Month and today is International Women’s Day. In honour of both, the Palestine Museum US in Woodbridge, Connecticut, will be encouraging visitors to immerse themselves in the artworks of 50 female Palestinian artists from around the world every Sunday until the end of May.

The exhibition Telling the Palestinian Story, which opens today, features more than 200 works of art, spanning painting, sculpture, photography, textiles and mixed media. The participating artists, many of whom will be exhibiting their work in the US for the first time, are from 14 countries on five continents, including the US and Canada, Palestine, Kenya, Chile, Germany and the UK.... PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ THE ARTICLE IN FULL

https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/museum-aims-to-bring-the-work-of-50-palestinian-women-artists-to-one-show-1.989454?fbclid=IwAR0uOnU9SJ-7YUOFe9cCO9NtQl5LPrmO8BiwNwcvBJXgxj0Z4KuzG07n6Hg

 

Standing with Palestine & the rule of fair and just laws, policies and investments: Photos from Al Awda Right of Return March Washington DC 3-1-2020

"...the possibility of infinite development"

Susan Muaddi Darraj  standing beside the Philadelphia Mural

from her facebook page

"This #Philadelphia #mural takes a quote by #WEBDuBois and translates it into #Arabic. (quote below)

It honors the neighborhood of Black Bottom, whose inhabitants were steadily displaced.

The mural was sponsored by @albustanseeds

"I believe that all men, black & brown & white, are brothers, varying through time & opportunity, in form & gift & feature, but differing in no essential partcular, & alike in soul & the possibility of infinite development."

- DuBois, Darkwater (1920) "

March First for Al Awda - a poem in Growing Gardens for Palestine by Anne Selden Annab

                   March First for Al Awda


My heart is with all

who march March 1st ...


with all who value every home
& family.


All who value freedom of
(and from) religion.


All who crave and help create

fair and just laws...


All who write stories and poems, and paint,
all who build beauty & museums for Palestine.


All who vote for full and equal rights
and respect.



Every step marched yesterday
today and tomorrow for Al Awda

is amplified a thousand fold,
by all who can not be there.


And amplified again, and again
for Al Awda, amplified a trillion fold
by every refugee.


My heart is with all

who march for real justice

and a lasting peace.

poem copyright ©2020 Anne Selden Annab 

 

Family from the #Ramallah area on a picnic...#Palestine circa early 1900s

Arab Jerusalem, Palestine long ago

Jerusalem Palestine old photograph by Félix Bonfils
from the British Library

Diana Buttu in Newsweek: Trump's "Peace" Plan Risks Setting Fire to Israel, Palestine—and International Legal Order As We Know It

Diana Buttu

"Beyond just Palestinians, many in the international community are deeply alarmed by the Trump/Kushner plan. As a precedent, it threatens to do away with the international legal system as we know it, including the idea that countries should not be allowed to acquire territory by force, replacing it with a system in which "might is right." The dangers beyond Palestine/Israel are obvious, including legitimizing Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea."  Diana Buttu 

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https://www.newsweek.com/trump-peace-plan-risks-israel-palestine-international-law-1484721?fbclid=IwAR0gLlVi1AzTWDVOggJiIJnHwgZ7_i_lIVopRXHlMkVesCGi_m-Oga0N09o

Palestinian-American Sam Bahour on "Trump's Ordeal of the Century" regarding Israeli/U.S. Occupied Palestine

NO JUSTICE = NO PEACE

 

The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) expresses its serious concerns regarding the so-called “Deal of the Century,” a false hope to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.This effort to impose a surrender on the Palestinians is a betrayal of international law, justice and American values.

Jerusalem THE CAPITAL OF PALESTINE

#Bethlehem, #Palestine: City from the southwest circa late 1920's

Bethlehem, Palestine: City from the southwest circa late 1920's

Israeli settlers set a Catholic Church in Galilee on fire

Dec 20,2019

 

In recent years, mosques and churches have been targeted by vandals in similar attacks. They are always attributed to extremist Jews in West Bank settlements.

 

The Galilee church where Jesus was believed to have performed miracle of feeding 5,000 followers was set alight in arson attack carried out by extremist Jewish settlers.

 

Hebrew graffiti was also scrawled across the walls of Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish.

An adviser to the Catholic Church blamed Jewish extremists for the “deplorable” attack after Israeli police said there is a “strong possibility” the fire was started deliberately.

The current structure was built on the remains of a fifth-century Byzantine church at Tabgha on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where many Christians believe Jesus fed 5,000 followers with just five loaves and two fish.

Police confirmed there was extensive damage to both inside and outside the building after the fire broke out in the middle of the night.

A monk and a church volunteer were hospitalised from smoke inhalation, but the incredibly, the prayer area was unaffected.

“It's deplorable, absolutely deplorable,” Father Gregory Collins, head of the Order of Saint Benedict in Israel, said. “I consider such an attack to be not just an attack on a religious site, on a sanctuary, but also on one of the most visited places in Israel.”

“It is also an attack on freedom of speech, democracy and the right to live here,” he added.

This incident, which happened in June 2015, was not the first such attack to be carried by the extremist Jewish settlers against Palestinian Muslim and Christian holy sites.

In recent years, mosques and churches have been targeted by vandals in similar attacks. They are always attributed to extremist Jews in West Bank settlements.

Such attacks have been on the rise because the perpetrators, who are being backed directly by the Israeli government, go unpunished.

#Jewish Settlers #Jesus #Galilee #Al Jaleel #Church #Catholic Church #Arson Attack

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 https://ppost24.com/post/567/israeli-settlers-set-catholic-church-in-galilee-on-fire?fbclid=IwAR2XkfZzfgxM1LJbZKOf_y3iwwLAmFk3UicM7_kS6c8GAzb9pU7yiExQMgc