Dozens of Christians arrested after shutting down US Senate lunch in protest of Gaza famine
Washington DC, US RNS “Woe to you who eat while others go hungry,” shouted two lines of Christian pastors and laypeople. With arms linked, they stood between the food and cash registers in the US Senate cafeteria and brought lunch to a standstill for about half an hour before US Capitol Police quickly completed arrests. […]
Marching for peace: US ‘Peace Pilgrimage’ takes up war in Gaza as a civil rights issue
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports that many Black Americans view the Palestinian cause in the context of the African American experience of oppression, a stance which has, on occasion, strained relations with American Jews…