On the second week of Advent on 7th December, many churches around the world will light the second candle, “The Bethlehem Candle,” which represents peace. Many communities are participating in FOSNA’s “Preach Palestine” Advent campaign to preach justice and peace during Advent and to organize their communities towards liberation. Sign up for the resources here Prince of Peace, as we journey through Advent, help us remember that you came to this earth to proclaim peace and righteousness. Teach us how to heed your call to be peacemakers

God help them – Peter Hospitals in Gaza are running out of essential supplies, with new waves of Israeli airstrikes killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 100 in recent days, medical and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory have said.Medics said on Sunday that stocks of gauze, antiseptics, thermometers and antibiotics were running low.Mohammed Saqr, the director of nursing at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, said: “We are still suffering a severe lack of most of our supplies and medicines. We have

God help anybody who is not Jewish in the Middle East – Peter The Israeli military said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in a strike on Beirut, as it pushes to keep the battered militant group from rebuilding following a cease-fire the two sides reached last year.The Israeli military said Sunday’s strike killed Haytham Ali Tabatabai, one of Hezbollah’s top three leaders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had approved the strike, describing the militant leader as Hezbollah’s chief of staff who was leading

Advent begins November 30 this year. The Advent season marks the beginning of the Christian liturgical year and is observed in various Christian denominations. Many churches throughout Advent will light the Advent wreath, which consists of a circular arrangement of evergreen branches with five candles. The lighting of the first candle on the Advent wreath symbolizes hope. Loving God, you are our light and salvation.  As we ignite the first candle of Advent, help us to commit to the prophetic practice of hope and sumud (steadfastness). This

BBC is appalling but try reading most of the Australian press for the same level of bias and dishonest reporting – Peter Benny Hill said it best about the BBC.In a memorable skit, the late British comedian plays a sanctimonious television journalist on assignment outside the locked gates of a country estate.“I hate rich people,” an immaculately coiffed Hill tells his fawning producer as he gestures towards the property.“I believe in a fairer distribution of wealth. That’s why I’m a socialist, you see.”As Hill outlines his

Israel is desperate for the truce to end so it can blame everybody else and continue its Genocide and murder of children and women without any criticism – Peter Gaza health authorities said fresh Israeli air strikes killed five people on Thursday, as ceasefire mediator Qatar warned the renewed attacks threatened to undermine the fragile weeks-long truce between Israel and Hamas.The new strikes came the morning after one of the deadliest days in the Gaza Strip since the truce began on October 10, and after Israel

Palestinian-Australian farmer Sari Kassis is defending his farm from the Hilltop Youth It doesn’t matter to Israel – everybody is a target for their Genocidal, murderous regime – Peter I belong to a farming family from Birzeit in the West Bank. I am a diaspora Palestinian and moved here in 2022, but our family have been here for hundreds of years. We’ve been farming grapes and producing wine since the 1990s, and olives since long before then. We also have some smallhold farms where we grow seasonal produce. About three

God help the world if Israel is allowed to continue to do this – Peter Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in its recent 13-month war in Lebanon, photos of munition remnants in south Lebanon seen by the Guardian suggest.The images, which have been examined by six different arms experts, appear to show the remnants of two different types of Israeli cluster munitions found in three different locations: south of the Litani River in the forested valleys of Wadi Zibqin, Wadi Barghouz and Wadi Deir Siryan.The

Israel is committing war crimes and Genocide and murder with total impunity across the whole of the Middle East – how as the world come to this and how has the essence of what Jewish has meant been so lost – Peter The Israeli military launched strikes on two south Lebanon towns, saying it was targeting militant group Hezbollah after warning civilians of the impending raids.The strikes came a day after 13 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in south