Editor’s note: A US consular official commented to the group with whom I was traveling, many years ago, that if we did not get intellectual indigestion on our trip, someone was not doing their job well. This was my first trip to Israel or Palestine, and although I had been reading about the conflict […]
Editor’s Note: Dick Toll reflects on the time in Jerusalem, Bi’lin and Hebron. We eight intrepid adventurers - members and friends of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship’s Palestine Israel Network - set off to Israel/Palestine on 18 April 2015. We had studied over the past year articles and books on the conflict in the Holy Land. […]
Editor’s note: EPF PIN’s education work group and friends were in Gaza 27-29 April. Harry Gunkel reflects on one day trip. "I am so proud to be Palestinian" "Saed" is speaking. He is 23 years old, married, and is driving us to some project sites we are visiting in Gaza. Saed's English is very […]
The delegation is wrapping up its time in Palestine/Israel. Here are some reflections from two members of the group. Look for more after their return to the US. Arrival: I lived in Ramallah for three years and it feels wonderful to be "home". Everything seems much the same. But that is not a good thing […]
**We invite Episcopalians to click on the widget below to Sign our Petition** [emailpetition id="2"] Full text of the petition: During the Christmas just past, most of us will have sung: “Oh, little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie” or “o come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem” But Bethlehem has not […]
EPF PIN members and long-time workers with Sabeel Maurine and Bob Tobin, recently spent a day in Gaza. Here is their report. Having read countless reports and viewed endless photos and YouTube videos, we thought we were prepared for what we would see on our visit to Gaza in early December 2014. But the reality […]
EPF PIN member Lynn Huber was part of a Compassionate Listening delegation to Palestine/Israel earlier this year. She continues reflecting on what she experienced through current events on the ground. Today I read an article in Time Magazine by Joe Klein entitled “Burned Books in the Holy Land: Jewish and Arab parents watch as […]
Kairos Palestine, the initiative that sprang up out of the inspirational Kairos Palestine Document of 2009, has issued its annual "Christmas Alert.” The introduction to the Alert offers an invitation for Christians and people everywhere to get involved in five specific ways: With this Christmas Alert, we are asking you to turn the tide by […]
Noura Erekat is a member of EPF PiN’s Palestine Advisory Group. She recently co-led an Interfaith Peace-Builders delegation to Palestine/Israel. She reflects on the experience in a report published on the Jadaliyya website on 9 July. In Travel Diary to Palestine: Journeys into Violence, Erekat chronicles the delegation’s travels and meetings and explores her feelings […]
. Dear Archbishop Welby, We write as representatives of organizations and as individuals who are deeply involved in the search for peace with justice in the Holy Land to express our deep concern over the remarks that have been attributed to you in a recent interview with the newspaper “Jewish News”. Amongst the aspects of […]
Palestine Israel Network Press Release Winston-Salem, North Carolina – A week after longtime Episcopalian advocates for justice in Palestine released a letter urging the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council to better pursue equality in the Middle East, the Diocese of North Carolina passed a resolution advocating the same policies at its annual convention. The Martin Luther […]
February 23rd leaders of the EPF Palestine Israel Network (Rev. Cotton Fite, Bishop Cabell Tennis, Mr. Tom Trueblood, The Rev. Bob Tobin) met with Bishop Suheil Dawani in his office in Jerusalem. He gave the delegation a thorough update on his legal situation and told them that he had just filed an administrative petition in […]
