UN appeals for $UN46 billion to meet humanitarian needs in 2024
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The United Nations on Monday appealed for $US46 billion in funding for 2024 to help millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the globe, including in the occupied Palestinian territories, Sudan and Ukraine. In its Global Humanitarian Overview for 2024, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that nearly […]
Israel occupation makes Palestinian territories “open-air prison” – UN expert
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters A United Nations expert on Tuesday said Israel had transformed the occupied Palestinian territories into an “open-air prison” through widespread detentions of Palestinians, an assertion swiftly dismissed by Israel. Damaged streets are seen after Israeli army’s withdrawal from the Jenin camp, in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 5th July,2023. PICTURE: Reuters/Yosri […]
Palestinians pin scant hope on Biden visit after setbacks under Trump
RamallahReuters As the United States strives to boost defence ties between Israel and Arab states, Palestinians await with increasing gloom the first visit of President Joe Biden after what they see as a string of broken promises by Washington. Requests for the reopening of the US consulate in Jerusalem, closed by former President Donald Trump, […]
Patriarch of Jerusalem’s edict puts unity on Holy Land’s Christmas in doubt
Amman, JordanRNS The Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, whose authority extends over some 130,000 Middle Eastern Christians, has posted a memo on the patriarchate website that appears to overturn a 45-year-old agreement with Western Christian churches to unify the celebration of Christian holidays. Since 1975, Western and Eastern Christians in Jordan, the Palestinian territories (with the […]
Israel to tell ICC it does not recognise court’s authority
Jerusalem, IsraelReuters Israel will tell the International Criminal Court it does not recognise the authority of the tribunal, which is planning to investigate possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. Netanyahu, after meeting with senior ministers and government officials ahead of a Friday deadline to respond to an […]
Palestinian President Abbas gives Christians outsize voice in new legislature
Amman, JordanRNS Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has guaranteed that at least seven seats of a new legislative council will go to Christians in the elections in the occupied territories to be held on 22nd May. The measure would give Christians, who make up about one per cent of the population of the occupied territories, an […]
Catholic priest attacked in Bethlehem after giving refuge to tourists
Morning Star News An unidentified man in Bethlehem lunged at a Catholic priest with what appears to be a knife on Friday in a rare attack on a clergyman in the Palestinian Territories. At Bethlehem’s Milk Grotto, Rev Fadi Shallufi on Friday afternoon opened the chapel gates to foreign tourists, including women who were being […]
MIDDLE EAST: ANGLICAN “PEACEMAKER” CALLS FOR CHRISTIANS TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION IN ENDING ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT
DAVID ADAMS speaks with Rev Dr Stephen Sizer, founder of the Peacemaker Trust, about his heart for peace in the Middle East…
US Vice President’s plans to help Middle East Christians overshadowed by political storm
World Watch Monitor US Vice President Mike Pence in a June 2017 photo PICTURE: NASA/Bill Ingalls US Vice President Mike Pence’s postponed trip to the Middle East goes ahead this weekend amid myriad tensions and a fast-shifting diplomatic landscape. Mr Pence’s trip is a shortened version of the one planned for last month, which was […]
Peacemakers share their hopes for a better future in Israel and Palestine in new WCC campaign
The profiles of 12 people involved in working for peace for all people in Israel and Palestine have gone online as part of a new World Council of Churches campaign, Seek #JusticeAndPeace in the Holy Land. The 12 people include both Israelis and Palestinians of various faiths. Among them are Jean Zaru, a Quaker and Palestinian Christian […]