World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel
28 May - 3 June 2012
"Pray, educate, and advocate for justice in Palestine"
An initiative of the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum (PIEF) of the World Council of Churches
The list below is a collection of resources for World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel.
Kairos Palestine Document
WCC Policy on Palestine/Israel
Invitation to action
Prayer and worship resources
- New! Jerusalem Prayer for 2012 (available in English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish).
- New! Worship liturgy "Come and See," prepared by Palestinian Christian theologians for World Week for Peace 2012. (Also available in French, German, and Spanish.)
- New! Worship liturgies for the Sundays of 27 May and 3 June, as well as sermon starters and other worship aids, prepared by the United Church of Canada.
- New! Worship liturgy for World Week for Peace 2012, created by Pax Christi.
- New! Send a prayer to the Christian community in Palestine. (Also available in French, German, and Spanish.)
- Worship resources for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (18-25 January) and throughout the year 2012. The theme for prayer this year: "We will all be changed by the victory of our Lord Jesus Christ" (cf. 1 Cor. 15:51-58).
- Reflections on the theme "I Dream of Peace in Jerusalem," written for World Week for Peace 2011 by residents of Jerusalem.
- Ecumenical Worship: It's Time for Peace. This liturgy features the voices of young Palestinians and Israelis. Inspired by an Irish church leaders' visit to Israel and Palestine, this service of reflections was updated for use during World Week 2010.
- Service of the Word in Observance of World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel, prepared for the service at the Ecumenical Center in Geneva on 31 May 2010.
- Prayers for Peace in the Middle East from the Lutheran Church of the Atonement, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- "Contemporary Way of the Cross" liturgy as prepared by Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, Jerusalem (pdf, 255 KB). New! Also now available in French.
- "The Way of the Cross: A Way of Peace" liturgy created by the Commissariat of the Holy Land in Canada and Antennas of Peace in Montreal.
- Song of Lamentation, written and composed by Rev. Susanne Grimheden, Lund, Sweden, based on a text by Bishop Munib Younan, in Jerusalem.
- Ecumenical Service from the Heads of Churches in Jerusalem, 2007 (pdf, 202 KB).
Educational and advocacy resources
- New! Dossier on Displacement and Dispossession, prepared by the PIEF as a resource for use during World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel 2012. (The introduction to the Dossier is available in German.)
- New! Advocacy brochure created by the WWPPI UK Working Group. (A leaflet based on this brochure is available in French.)
- New! Advocacy brochure created by the United Church of Canada (with advocacy details translated into German).
- New! The Bethlehem Call, a statement from the December 2011 Kairos for Global Justice Encounter sponsored by Kairos Palestine. (Click here to read the Bethlehem Call in Arabic, German, Dutch or French.)
- New! To help publicize the Week: a press release issued by the World Council of Churches, and a video produced by the Jerusalem Inter-church Centre.
- Dossier on Jerusalem, Issues and Perspectives (pdf), prepared as background material for the World Week for Peace 2011
- Resources from the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), an initiative of the WCC: Eyewitness Reports blog postings by Ecumenical Accompaniers, newsletters about the work of EAPPI, and factsheets and publications on specific topics relating to Israel's occupation policies in the West Bank.
- East Jerusalem: Key Humanitarian Concerns, a report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), occupied Palestinian territory, March 2011.
- Life Under Occupation: An Introduction to the Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a 27-page publication of the Alternative Tourism Group and the YMCA-YWCA Joint Advocacy Initiative.
- Perspectives, the newsletter of the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum (PIEF).
- Cornerstone, the quarterly publication of Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center. The Spring 2010 issue contains several articles related to the Kairos Palestine Document.
- A list of recent films depicting the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from many different perspectives.
- BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) resources: the website of The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, and the website of Palestinian civil society campaign Global BDS Movement.
- Fact sheets on Water Resources In the West Bank and Water Quality in the Gaza Strip from Palestinian advocacy group EWASH.
- The Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict ("Goldstone Report"), September 2009.
- Series of interviews about the meaning of sumud or steadfastness, from the Arab Educational Institute, Bethlehem.
- Study plan for "Kairos Palestine: A Moment of Truth" and "Steadfast Hope: The Palestinian Quest for Just Peace", available from the Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
- Peace Not Walls, a campaign for peace with justice in the Holy Land, sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
- "Settlement products - the issues and advocacy messages in relation to the European Union" - a paper for use in the European Union developed by Quaker Peace and Social Witness, UK, for World Week 2009.
- A Code of Conduct for Tourism in the Holy Land is a Palestinian initiative to foster responsible forms of tourism that offer communities opportunities to share their cultures, tell their stories, request solidarity and foster greater understanding.
Examples of how churches have participated in World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel
Links in relation to the action week
Click here for a complete list of PIEF's links to churches and organizations that are working together in support of a just peace for all in Palestine and Israel.
