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بينما تستعد بيت لحم للاحتفال بعيد الميلاد، "الأمر كله يتمحور حول المجتمع"

بينما يتطلع المسيحيون حول العالم إلى موسم القدوم، تجري الاستعدادات على قدم وساق في المكان الذي بدأ فيه الأمر برمته، بيت لحم، للاحتفال بتلك القصة التي تقع في صميم كافة التقاليد المسيحية.

06 December 2022
Feature story
Salt of the Earth, West Bank

Salt of the Earth group draws young Christians together in West Bank

Osama Sayegh has a heart for numbers: four in Deir Ghazaleh, 35 in Kufr Kad, 50 in Toubas, 35 in Jalameh, 67 in Burqin, 130 in Jenin.

He counts the number of Christians left in these communities across the northern part of the West Bank. He reaches with his heart for the people behind those numbers: why are young Christian families leaving? How can he convince them to stay?

20 July 2022
Interview
Nora Carmi portrait photo

Palestinian Christian peace worker yearns for courageous leaders

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.

10 December 2020
Interview
Mitri Raheb stands by a window

A hopeful, but not optimistic Palestinian ecumenist

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.  

09 December 2020