July Third Thursday Action Alert
TELL CONGRESS TO STOP PALESTINIAN DEMOLITIONS AND DISPLACEMENT Peace Not Walls, along with other organizations in the Faith Forum on Middle East Policy, will send out action alerts monthly on every third Thursday. Each action alert will focus on different issues...
ELCA works to provide relief to people internally displaced in Syria
ELCA NEWS SERVICE June 26, 2013 ELCA works to provide relief to people internally displaced in Syria CHICAGO (ELCA) — In response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is providing more than $540,000 to...
Bishop Younan Speaks at Conference on Christians in the Middle East
Beirut, Lebanon: On May 22 2013, Lutheran World Federation (LWF) President, Bishop Munib Younan of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL), spoke during the World Council of Churches (WCC) and Middle East Council of Churches...
Join ELCA leaders and urge Obama to pursue diplomatic solutions in Syria
In a letter to President Obama on April 12, ELCA leaders urged Obama to “take steps to find new avenues toward peace and resolve the war through diplomatic means” in Syria. In their letter, the ELCA presiding bishop and four...
Easter Message from Heads of Churches in Jerusalem
In their Easter message, the Heads of Churches in Jerusalem “call upon all Christians from around the ecumenical world to come and visit with our churches and walk with the living stones of the Holy Land in the footsteps of...
30 Hebron school children detained by Israeli army
httpv://youtu.be/PDaMlJVcMkA According to a report by the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), on Wednesday, March 20, at 7:30 am, the day President Obama landed in Tel Aviv, 22 Israeli soldiers arrived at the Hebron Public Elementary School where they forced...
New ELCA missionaries installed in Jerusalem
On March 10th, 2013, ELCJHL Bishop Munib Younan installed Rev. Dr. Angela Zimmann and Rev. Dr. Martin Zimmann as pastors of the English Speaking Redeemer congregation and Special Assistants to the Bishop. Also installed were Danae Hudson, as Communications Assistant to...
ELCJHL becomes member church of the World Council of Churches
The Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) meeting near Geneva at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey voted to approve the full membership of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL) in the WCC....
Documentary films on Israel/Palestine vie for Oscars
httpv://youtu.be/dYthMjzyFlM Two documentary films about Israel/Palestine are in the news right now because they are both up for an Oscar award for best documentary film. Five Broken Cameras was made by two men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, and tells the story of ...
UN report shows increasing violence from both sides in Syria
In its latest report, released Monday, the UN commission of inquiry in Syria finds that both pro- and anti-Government forces have become increasingly violent and reckless with human life as the conflict draws to the close of its second year. It emphasizes...