Tag: Israel and palestine

Sabeel Wave of Prayer

18 March 2024 Last week, Prime minister Netanyahu announced that the military plan for a ground invasion of Rafah, where about 1.4 million Palestinians are sheltering, has been approved. The UN and several countries that have supported Israel uncritically since October 7th have warned Israel against this plan. The majority of people in Rafah are displaced Gazans who have been living through hellish circumstances.  □ God of the oppressed, give us sight which recognizes that although structures, governments, and empires have powers to kill, starve, ethnically

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Israel is starving Gaza

By Israel attacking known humanitarian sites, such as food centers, schools and clinics, the IDF is declaring that there is nowhere safe in Gaza, or in southern Gaza, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed all civilians to gather for safety.

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There is no healthcare system left in Gaza

Before becoming one of the world’s foremost journalists and commentators on international affairs, Chris Hedges was ordained as a Minister in the Presbyterian Church. Apparently, they didn’t have a posting for him in the warzone where he wanted to work. As ever, he offers us the truths that none of us want to hear and that the powerful do not want to be spoken. God bless you, brother, for forcing us to see the horrors of Gaza. Dave The Silence of the Damned There is no

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World Day of Prayer for Palestine – 1 March 2024

World Day of Prayer for Palestine – 1 March 2024  The World Day of Prayer is an international ecumenical Christian laywomen’s initiative. It is run under the motto “Informed Prayer and Prayerful Action,” and is celebrated annually in over 170 countries on the first Friday in March. The movement aims to bring together women of various races, cultures and traditions in a yearly common Day of Prayer, as well as in closer fellowship, understanding and action throughout the year.” Five years ago, an ecumenical group of

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A prophetic word on Gaza from Dr Ralph Wilde

Dr. Ralph Wilde is a member of the Faculty of Laws at University College London. He is currently engaged in an interdisciplinary research project, funded by the European Research Council, on the extraterritorial application of international human rights law, called ‘human rights beyond borders’.

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Sabeel Wave of Prayer

12 February 2024 The 14th of February marks for many Christians worldwide Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday symbolizes the first day of Lent and is traditionally observed with fasting and abstinence from meat and other animal products. Ash Wednesday derives its name from this practice, in which placement of ashes on the forehead is accompanied by the words, “for dust you are and to dust you will return.” Lent is a period of lament which ends with the great celebration of Easter. Ÿ Crucified Christ, in this season of

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We have a tool to stop Israel’s war crimes: BDS

We already have the tool “to stop Israel’s war crimes”, says Naomi Klein. It’s “BDS” – that it, it’s the strategy of using ‘Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions’ against Israel. Indeed, she is right. It is a powerful weapon for non-violent change. Even so, a generation of propaganda has made it is almost impossible for Western governments to employ this strategy. I still remember when our local council – Marrickville (in the inner-West of Sydney) –officially adopted BDS in 2011. It caused such an uproar that the

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