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Sinéad Ní Bhroin, from the EAPPI UK and Ireland team, served as an ecumenical accompanier in Bethlehem from 31 August to 7 October. The World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel, based on an appeal from local church leaders to create an international presence in the country, accompanies the local people and communities, offering a protective presence and witnessing daily struggles and hopes. Below, a reflection on what she witnessed while in the field.

When Dr Michel Abs, secretary general of the Middle East Council of Churches, speaks about living conditions in Lebanon, his compassion for his people—and his passion for peace—brim over. In a video interview with the World Council of Churches, he honestly shared his deepest concerns about the current socio-economic crisis in his nation, and how churches are helping.

Jack Munayer, coordinator for the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (WCC-EAPPI), recently visited the South Hebron Hills area with diplomatic delegates from eight different countries, as well as Israeli activists. The visit was organized by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The group visited families and listened to their stories with the goal of discerning the nature of hardship and trauma that the occupation continues to cause.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) is beginning an East Jerusalem Initiative, through which the WCC-EAPPI is accompanying—even without a physical presence—families facing eviction and displacement, as well as people facing other violations of their rights. Below, WCC director of the Commission for the Churches on International Affairs Peter Prove explains the goals and history behind the East Jerusalem Initiative.

El Programa Ecuménico de Acompañamiento en Palestina e Israel (PEAPI) del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) emprende la Iniciativa de Jerusalén Oriental, mediante la cual el PEAPI del CMI acompaña –incluso sin presencia física– a las familias que se enfrentan al desalojo y el desplazamiento, así como a otras personas que ven violados otros de sus derechos. A continuación, el director de la Comisión de las Iglesias para Asuntos Internacionales (CIAI), Peter Prove, explica la historia que hay detrás de la Iniciativa de Jerusalén Oriental y cuáles son sus objetivos.

A principios de diciembre, cuando la iniciativa del CMI de la recolección de la aceituna de 2020 se acercaba a su fin, el departamento de Noticias del CMI se reunió con Nora Carmi –una palestina cristiana que ha trabajado por la paz y la justicia toda su vida–, para conocer su perspectiva sobre la situación actual en Tierra Santa y la importancia de la fe para mantener la esperanza.

Con el cierre de la temporada de cosecha de la aceituna, la vida en los territorios ocupados vuelve a la “normalidad”, para los palestinos de las comunidades de la Ribera Occidental. Bajo esa “normalidad”, que implica desplazamientos forzosos y el temor permanente a las amenazas y el acoso, ahora también se perfila en el horizonte la amenazante anexión de grandes extensiones de tierras fértiles, propiedad de agricultores palestinos. Un paso que “socavaría la paz y la justicia, y constituiría una violación directa del derecho internacional”, tal y como lo expresaron el CMI y otras organizaciones ecuménicas en una declaración ecuménica conjunta emitida este año.   

As the WCC olive harvest initiative in 2020 drew to a close in early December, WCC News met with Nora Carmi, a Christian Palestinian who has worked for peace and justice her whole life, to hear her perspective on the situation in the holy land today, and the role of faith in sustaining hope.

With olive harvest season coming to an end, life under occupation returns to “normal” for Palestinian communities on the West Bank. Under that “normal,” which means forced displacements and constant fear of threats and harassments, now also looms a threatening Israeli annexation of large chunks of fertile land owned by Palestinian farmers – a move which would “undermine peace and justice and be in direct violation of international law,” according to a joint ecumenical statement by the WCC and other ecumenical organizations earlier this year.