By Joyce Penfield 11 June 2026 The Israeli occupation prison system is exclusively for Palestinians and governed totally by Israeli military law and rule. The courts—including the prosecutor and judge—are also military run. Consequently, the conviction rate for Palestinians who are charged with anything is about 99.7 per cent. One-third of the 9,500 children, women, and […]
Steve France, a PJN representative at the Summit, wrote this report for PJN on the Go, published May 14, 2026: “I can say that this was the most energized and inspiring [Washington] Summit that I have experienced during my time at CMEP,” Kyle Cristafalo, director of advocacy and government relations of Churches for Middle East Peace, […]
08 May 2026: Dearest friends in Christ, We write to you with unwavering solidarity, with broken hearts, and with a crushing awareness of our inability to end the nightmare in which you are living. We mourn our weakness and confess our shame at the profound moral failure of our political and our Church leaders during […]
9 April 2026 Melissa Yarbray shared her vision on 4/9/26. My commitment to addressing Palestinian suffering began over 50 years ago while studying at the American University of Beirut (1969–70). There, I heard firsthand accounts from Palestinians about the torture and trauma their families endured—displacement, loss of homes and livelihoods, and violence during 1948 and 1967. […]
The Rev. Cliff Cutler, EPF-PJN, has released this statement on 3/6/26: “Kairos Palestine II: A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide” is the subject of a joint Episcopal-Lutheran Justice Network Webinar to be held on Tuesday, March 17, at 7 p.m. Eastern time. To register and receive the Zoom invitation, please email: […]
The Reverend Canon Brian J. Grieves, 7 March 2026: Palestinian Christians have been my teachers for over the last 30 years. I’ve also learned from courageous Israeli Jews and Palestinian Muslims. But the Christians are family. Listen to their voices, to their demands for justice, and even sometimes their anger at the worldwide Church. Why […]
Kayla Robbins, 4 April 2024: A week before Holy Week, a few friends and I traveled to Washington DC and went on hunger strike for a mere five days in solidarity with the people of Palestine, joining over 150 clergy and practitioners of a multiplicity of faith traditions around the country. We fasted and protested […]
Priscilla Read, 1 February 2024: With the grim images linked to the devastation of Gaza appears a glimmer of light: the remarkable mobilization of diverse forces across the globe and within the U.S. in support of Palestinian human rights. The general public is finally learning of the realities that Palestinians have faced for decades. A […]
Harry Gunkel, 23 December 2023: “It's beginning to look a lot like ChristmasToys in every store…” It is no profound observation that Christmas has become commodified and sanitized in our media-driven, possession-riddled world. That should probably not surprise us much because the essence of the Nativity is Incarnation – the divine becoming present amidst humankind […]
30 November 2023: The recent shooting of three Palestinian American college students in Burlington, Vermont has highlighted the way in which Palestinians have been dehumanized in the eyes of many Americans. That a 6 year old boy in the Chicago suburbs could be murdered by his landlord; or that these young men, graduates of the […]
30 October 2023: Dear PIN supporters: These days since October 7 have been hard ones, among the hardest we've had. We are experiencing extreme emotions and are encountering a barrage of reactions to the crisis in Gaza, both from without and from within our own Episcopal Church and EPF families. Among the most challenging and […]
15 October 2023: Even through all the years since the Nakba, when war crimes have been commonplace, when we count Palestinian deaths in the hundreds every year, and when “humanitarian disaster” is continuous and only changes by degrees, events in Palestine and Israel in this early October 2023 are testing us – our limits of […]
