Saturday, October 22, 2011

Adult Education: Faith, Hope and Love of Christians Living in the Holy Land

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church issued a Pastoral Letter on Israeli-Palestinian Peace on October 3, 2011. What follows is an excerpt from that letter.

“I want to emphasize the particular responsibility we have as Christians to stand in solidarity with the Christian communities of the Holy Land who suffer the pains of the conflict and consistently act as agents of peacemaking. Bishop Suheil Dawani, the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, at a recent conference in London on Holy Land Christians, put it this way, “As Christians, we are called to be peacemakers, to continue to provide hope where it is dim, to be voices of the voiceless, and to be advocates for a just and durable peace.”
Friends, please join The Rev Deacon Stephen Denny as we explore the faith, hope and love of Christians living in the Holy Land, 9:00 AM, October 23, 30 and November 6.
To read the full content of the Presiding Bishop’s letter, visit: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/newsline_130016_ENG_HTM.htm