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Palestinian preacher ministers to PC(USA) national staff on Palestinian Nakba Remembrance Day

Posted May 15th, 2024

On Wednesday, Palestinian Nakba Remembrance Day, national staff of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) were privileged to hear a sermon from Omar Haramy, executive director of Sabeel, a PC(USA) partner that works to challenge religious extremism.

The PC(USA)’s Office of Public Witness signs letter urging funding restoration to UNRWA

Posted April 30th, 2024

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Office of Public Witness joined with more than 100 additional immigrant, refugee, human rights and humanitarian organizations urging Congress to introduce and pass legislation that supports reinstating funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA. The letter calls it a “moral and strategic failure” to suspend funding during a period of catastrophe and extreme need.

Minute for Mission: Palestinian Nakba Remembrance Day

Posted April 25th, 2022

Like thousands of other Palestinians, my parents experienced dispossession and became refugees because of the Nakba (disaster) that befell the Palestinian people and society on May 15, 1948. Becoming refugees and seeing the disintegration of all that you used to love is a very difficult transition. Spiritual guidance and comfort are a resource that I witnessed both my father and mother use to recoup and go on.

Despite many challenges, Christmas is celebrated in the Holy Land

Posted December 14th, 2021

If ever the world — and Bethlehem — needed a little cheer, it’s this year.

Shades of oppression

Posted March 30th, 2021

I was born in Nazareth, but spent five years of my childhood in Haifa, Israel’s third largest city, where my father was the Anglican priest.

Bringing light to the Upper Dark Forest

Posted October 19th, 2020

What do you think of when you see the word “Caucasian?” If you are not of Southwest Asian descent (Middle Eastern), it is probably the now-outmoded usage of referring to white people of European descent.

Just ahead of Israel’s annexation announcement, webinar explores the ramifications

Posted June 30th, 2020

A webinar posted last week by three ministries of the Presbyterian Mission Agency speaks to the announcement expected Wednesday that Israel will, with the blessing of U.S. government officials, annex about 30 percent of the territory of the West Bank, which would affect about 750,000 Palestinians living in land occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war.

Mosaic of Peace deadline approaches

Posted October 8th, 2019

The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program is set to lead its fourth journey to Israel and Palestine March 15–28, 2020. Applications are being accepted online for the 2020 Mosaic of Peace Conference through Oct. 15, or after that date as space allows.

Join the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program in a journey to Southeast Asia

Posted August 28th, 2019

A travel study seminar to the Philippines and Hong Kong — May 1–15, 2020 — will focus on the root causes and current challenges of forced migration and labor trafficking. The trip includes two days of travel, seven days in the Philippines and five days in Hong Kong.

Tread the ancient stones, be transformed by the ‘living stones’ of the land called holy

Posted July 2nd, 2019

Many people say a trip to the Holy Land is definitely on their “bucket list.” It’s something they want to do, plan to do, hope to do — one of these days. The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program and World Mission have collaborated to lead a spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land every other year since 2014. The 2020 Mosaic of Peace Conference: Witnessing for Peace and Wholeness in a Land Called Holy is scheduled for March 15–28. Applications are being accepted online through Oct. 15, or after that should space allow.