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• Muslim leaders reach out to Christians around the world

12-Oct-07

One Hundred Thirty Nine Muslim leaders and scholars have written to Pope Benedict XVI

(Read more here)

• Palestinian Christian killed for his faith in Gaza

12-Oct-07 Come and See,

Rami Ayyad, a Palestinian Christian worker in the Bible Society bookstore in Gaza and one of the leaders of the Gaza Baptist Church was brutally killed this morning, as announced by the Palestinian Bible Society in Jerusalem.

(Read more here)

• Church Leaders condemn the killing of a Palestinian Christian in Gaza

11-Oct-07

As leaders of the Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical (Lutheran and Anglican) Churches, we condemn with deep sorrow the deliberate murder of Mr. Rami Ayyad.

(Read more here)

• Outsourcing the checkpoints

10-Oct-07 Haaretz,

Monday, 5:30 A.M., on the hill opposite the Palestinian village of Zabda, in the West Bank. Behind us lies the village of Barta'a. Between the two villages, in the heart of this enchanted landscape, we see towers, concrete walls, chain-link fences, metal gates and a leveled area whose glaring whiteness scars the terrain.

(Read more here)

• Protests greet American university ban on Desmond Tutu

09-Oct-07 Ekklesia,

Students, academics, human rights campaigners and a Jewish peace group have protested loudly at the decision of the Catholic University of St Thomas, Minnesota, to cancel a campus visit by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, because he has criticized Israeli government policy.

(Read more here)

• St. Susanna hosts visitors from 'twin' church in Jordan

08-Oct-07 Richard Wilson,

Students from a Catholic school in Karak, Jordan are in town to spread a message of peace.

(Read more here)

• Palestinian teens get taste of American life

04-Oct-07 The Detroit News, Steve Pardo,

Students talk of life as Christian minority in city

(Read more here)

• Senior Citizens from Birzeit, join hundreds of others on the International Day of the Elderly

02-Oct-07 HCEF, George Ghattas,

HCEF organized a dinner for close to 300 senior citizen, Men and women from the Ramallah area together with several of the local parish priests, religious and community leaders and the Mayors of Ramallah and Birzeit and HCEF staff and volunteers in the Holy Land.

(Read more here)

• Vatican Message to Muslims for Ramadan

02-Oct-07 Zenit,

MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE TO MUSLIMS FOR THE END OF RAMADAN

(Read more here)

• Israel Tightens Policy on Re-entry Visas

26-Sep-07 Zenit,

The Israeli government is no longer granting routine re-entry visas to Arab Christian religious leaders who wish to travel in and out of occupied Palestinian territories.

(Read more here)

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