Dear Friends and Supporters, On Wednesday 27 May 2026, 6:00pm AEST, join Palestinian Christians in Australia,  Aotearoa Christians for Peace in Palestine in partnership with the Pacific Conference of Churches for a powerful live Webinar with Dr. Brian Dunn, church historian and lecturer at Pasifika Communities University (PCU) in Fiji, as he examines the history of Christian Zionism parallel to other harmful narratives across the Pacific region. Dr Brian was born in Canada, with earlier studies at Lakehead University, before completing his doctorate at the University of Oxford. He

Julian Borgerin Jerusalem Israeli PM says he has ‘full coordination’ with US president amid reports that Washington no longer consults him Benjamin Netanyahu interrupted an uncharacteristically long silence over the Iran conflict this week with a video commentary insisting he had “full coordination” with Donald Trump, with whom he spoke “almost daily”. The insistence that all was rosy in the US-Israeli relationship followed weeks of reports in the domestic press that Israel was no longer being consulted over the Iran conflict, and even less over Pakistani-brokered

by Jonathan Kuttab “And the Light is the test by which people are guilty or not. People love darkness more than the Light because the things they do are sinful” (John 3:19). In 1993, the UN General Assembly declared May 3 as World Press Freedom Day, celebrating journalists internationally as agents of freedom and light who inform the world about global conditions, human rights violations, and human suffering. However, there has never in the history of the world been a more blatant example of lethal

Last week, Layan Nasir was released from Damon prison in Israel and was reunited with her family and friends in Birzeit after serving a 7-and-a-half-month sentence. 25-year old Layan Nasir, a member of St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Birzeit, was first violently kidnapped and detained in 2021 for months under Israel’s administrative detention policy, which allows military authorities to hold Palestinians for an indefinite amount of time without charge or trial. She was detained on charges of belonging to a student union and organizing student activities at her university in the occupied West Bank. Holy God, we pray for all-encompassing healing for Layan and her

Last week, the Palestine marathon was held for the first time in three years in Bethlehem and Gaza. The Palestine marathon is an annual event for many Palestinians locally and around the world, and participants run to tell a different story about Palestine as well as the effect of Israel’s Occupation on Palestinians’ freedom of movement. This year’s marathon was centered on hope. In Gaza, 2,523 people, including 15 amputees, participated in a 5K, determined to live and persevere despite the devastation. In Bethlehem, over 10,000 people ran a 10K along routes hemmed in by checkpoints and the apartheid wall. Holy God, we thank you for the resilience

On February 15, after over three years of harassment and abuse from Israeli authorities since he was 16 years old, Shadi Khoury (Sabeel co-founder Samia Khoury’s grandson) was sentenced to 32 months in prison and a fine equivalent to $3,836  His family then submitted an appeal against the conviction and sentence, along with a request to freeze the order for Shadi to report to prison. On Sunday March 29, 2026, The Supreme Court decided to suspend the implementation of that order and scheduled a hearing on April 16 to review Shadi’s case. On

The Global Sumud Flotilla   Photo: Brahim Guedich   by Jonathan Kuttab On Wednesday, a flotilla of 55 ships carrying humanitarian relief to Gaza was intercepted in international waters off the Greek Islands by armed Israeli naval vessels. The Israelis forcefully boarded 20 ships, kidnapping 175 of their occupants, who come from many countries, and destroyed the equipment of some ships and towed others towards Ashdod. This confrontation could not provide a more stark contrast between two opposing world views: On the one side was

Rightwing Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid announce new party before Knesset vote expected later this year Somebody needs to stop the evil – Peter The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is facing the prospect of running against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year after two of his most formidable political rivals combined forces in an attempt to oust him, inviting a third party leader to join them. In a move that some analysts compared to the centre-right coalition that removed Viktor Orbán from