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Shrine of St. Jude Living Stones Pilgrimage, April 27 – May 11, 2009

HCEF Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, May 3 - 16, 2009

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"To such as these does the Kingdom of God belong!" Matthew 19:14

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• Pope Says Comments on Islam Do Not Reflect His Personal Views

18-Sep-06 VOA News,

Pope Benedict XVI tried on Sunday to calm Muslim anger at his recent remarks on Islam, saying he "deeply regrets" the reaction.

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• HCEF Bethlehem Staffers Attacked

15-Sep-06 HCEF,

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 14 year old boy yesterday in front of Christ's birthplace during a raid to capture a Palestinian activist. Members of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation staff in Bethlehem were trapped by the fighting...

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• Caritas' Medical Center in Gaza celebrates its 3rd anniversary

07-Sep-06 Caritas,

Under the sound of missiles falling on Gaza, of shooting and artillery, Caritas Jerusalem's Gaza Medical Center celebrated its 3rd anniversary of its establishment in Gaza City on Saturday, September 2nd 2006.

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• Historic interfaith agreement 'staged' to appease Israel

07-Sep-06 Ekklesia,

Arab Christians have said that they were not adequately involved in the 'historic' declaration signed this week by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Chief Rabbis of Israel.

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• NEW MIDDLE EAST FORUM TO UNITE CHURCH EFFORTS FOR PEACE

07-Sep-06 WCC,

In a major new initiative, the central committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has endorsed proposals to establish a comprehensive ecumenical advocacy initiative for peace in the Middle East...

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• Archbishop Appeals to Catholics in Holy Land We Must Be Bridge-Builders, He Says

01-Sep-06 Zenit.org,

Catholics are called to be bridge-builders in the Holy Land, says the coadjutor patriarch of Jerusalem.

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• Israeli-Palestinian pacts failed from no religious input says bishop

30-Aug-06 ENI,

Peace accords between Israelis and Palestinians have failed because there was no religious input into them, says a Holy Land Lutheran bishop who was among a group of Christians, Jews and Muslims organizing special meetings during a world interfaith ...

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• Palestine's Humanitarian Crisis - Six months without a steady paycheck and school is about to begin

29-Aug-06 Caritas,

The school year is about to start here in Palestine, but exactly what it will look like this year is anyone's guess. Most families are looking at the situation with extreme anxiety. Are the government schools going to open as striking teachers protest the non-payment of salaries?

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• THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM

29-Aug-06 Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem,

Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and Israel.

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• Christians Scouts continue to live their lives as human beings under occupation

22-Aug-06 Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, Washington, DC., Lindsey Jones, HCEF Pilgrim/volunteer,

Forgotten amidst the news of violence, war, occupation, and invasion, beneath the discussions of Israel's separation wall, closures, imprisonment, and home demolitions, behind the cries of concern for the shrinking Christian Palestinian population ...

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