2025 ELCA Sumud Lenten Series Resource Guide
Dear Sumud community, Thank you for your patience in receiving this Sumud Lenten resource. Below you will find a link to our 2025 Sumud Lenten Resource Guide, which has six weeks worth of links to guide you in Lenten devotions,...
My American Christian Voice
How can we use our voices for justice in Palestine and Israel as American Christians?
Sumud Lent Series 2025
This Lent, join ELCA Sumud with a six-week series in which Palestinian Christian theologians and pastors will weave together the biblical history of the Holy Land with themes of Jesus’s ministry surrounding empire and justice. Through videos and reflections, we...
Advent Pilgrimage in Palestine 2022
Join us in Sensing Advent: Practicing God’s justice in embodied community Advent Pilgrimage in Palestine is a four-week virtual pilgrimage from the ELCA’s Peace Not Walls, Young Adult Ministry, Arab and Middle Eastern ministry, and ALAMEH featuring young adult voices from...
ALAMEH Statement on Iran
ALAMEH (Association of Lutherans of Arab and Middle Eastern Heritage) issued a statement on Iran, please find it linked below. ALAMEH Statement on Iran
Christian Presence in Jerusalem
Today, September 27, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem issued a statement in support of HM King Abdullah II following his speech at the UN Assembly in NY on September 20. The speech raised concerns about threats to...
Special Action Alert: Support U.S. Funding of Augusta Victoria Hospital
Support U.S. Funding of Augusta Victoria Hospital! Take action today. Background President Joe Biden visited Augusta Victoria Hospital on July 15 as part of a two-day presidential visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Biden’s visit to the hospital was...
President Biden visits Augusta Victoria Hospital
The United States President Joe Biden visited the LWF-operated Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) on the morning of Friday July 15. The visit was part of a two-day presidential visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Biden’s visit to the hospital...
ELCA Bishops Write to Congress about Augusta Victoria Hospital Funding
On May 18, ELCA Presiding Bishop Eaton and 44 ELCA synod bishops wrote to Congress about their concerns related to the funding of Augusta Victoria Hospital. Read the full letter here: ELCA Bishops’ letter to Congress concerning US funding...
Join Bishop Eaton in speaking out about Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing
May 19, 2022 Presiding Bishop Eaton wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken to express her “profound shock and sadness concerning the death of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin, the West Bank, on May 11 and the deplorable...