As Christians in the United States prepare to celebrate Christmas, we are being invited to pray for a just peace for Israelis and Palestinians and send Christmas wishes and messages of peace to Bethlehem to encourage the Christian community living in the place of Christ's birth.
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Since December 2000, a new Christmas tradition has been taking shape: sending peace messages to people in Bethlehem. Once again, individuals, communities, churches and congregations, organizations and partners from across the world are invited to e-mail Advent and Christmas wishes and prayers for justice and peace to Bethlehem.
Wishes and prayers will be printed and handed out as personal messages, educational materials (e.g. at schools), and in the context of interfaith prayers (in places of worship) and in the newly established peace house of the Arab Educational Institute in Bethlehem, affiliated with several church-related organizations.
Sending a wish or a prayer by e-mail is an important way of communicating with many people who long to hear a word of hope. People in Bethlehem greatly appreciate receiving wishes and prayers from people outside the region, both as personal and spiritual gestures of comfort and hope on the occasion of Christmas.
Please e-mail your Christmas messages and prayers for peace before the 25th of December 2008 (Western Christmas) and/or the 7th of January 2009 (Eastern Christmas). Messages can be e-mailed to the Arab Educational Institute at the following address: aei@p-ol.com
If you would like to read prayers for peace from around the world that AEI has already received, please visit https://www.aeicenter.org/ChristmasMessages2008-09/
