{"id":1211,"date":"2012-04-02T14:35:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T20:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2012-04-02T14:37:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T20:37:05","slug":"follow-bloggers-during-the-walk-of-holy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/follow-bloggers-during-the-walk-of-holy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow bloggers during the walk of Holy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-PujjHkFjyA\">httpv:\/\/youtu.be\/-PujjHkFjyA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joy is one of the pillars of our resilience,&#8221; says one Palestinian Christian in Bethlehem\u00a0celebrating Palm Sunday.\u00a0 The Israeli government does give churches special permits for their people to go to Jerusalem during these Holy Days, but the permits\u00a0are limited, and can be cancelled by the soldier at the checkpoint at his or her discretion.\u00a0 Sometimes, they just close down the checkpoints anyway, dependent upon the mood of the moment.\u00a0 This despite the fact that freedom of worship and access to holy places is a right under international law.\u00a0It is so ironic to stand in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and watch the thousands upon thousands of Christians who have come from all over the globe to worship in Jerusalem when you know that fellow Christians\u00a0living 5 miles away are not allowed the same right.<\/p>\n<p>But these families in this video celebrate Palm Sunday in Bethlehem, and are proud and joyful because of it.\u00a0 Resilience and\u00a0resistance come in many forms.<\/p>\n<p>This Holy Week, we invite you to read along day by day with pilgrims who have been in the Holy Land\u00a0who are blogging a mix of historical, holy occaisions and current day realities.\u00a0 There is a wealth of ideas, stories, photos, videos and important information about the situation today:<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Loren McGrail, who served as an Ecumenical Accompanier (EA)\u00a0in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eappi.org\" target=\"_blank\">Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme for Palestine and Israel (EAPPI),\u00a0 <\/a>focuses her writings on Jerusalem at <a href=\"http:\/\/agarmentofdestiny.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/agarmentofdestiny.blogspot.com\/<\/a>;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Jan Miller, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alentengeography.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/www.alentengeography.blogspot.com\/<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0links to\u00a0vital current information about the situation there.<\/p>\n<p>Seminarian Chris Cowan, also a former EA in Hebron, shares detailed information about\u00a0the recent exponential growth in threatened and actual home\/structure\/energy facility demolitions, especially in the Southern Hebron Hills area, and talks about the double whammy Palestinians are experiencing from ongling demolitions and expropriation of their land.\u00a0\u00a0Read her posts at <a href=\"http:\/\/christiarts.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/christiarts.wordpress.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find other Holy Week resources at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\">www.elca.org\/peacenotwalls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>May we all strive and struggle for the things that make for peace with justice, just as we weep for those actions and policies that crucify it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/youtu.be\/-PujjHkFjyA &#8220;Joy is one of the pillars of our resilience,&#8221; says one Palestinian Christian in Bethlehem\u00a0celebrating Palm Sunday.\u00a0 The Israeli government does give churches special permits for their people to go to Jerusalem during these Holy Days, but the permits\u00a0are limited, and can be cancelled by the soldier at the checkpoint at his or her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8040,1400,7680],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-post","category-palestinian-christians"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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