The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation Invites you to BOOK SINING LUNCHEEON for Charles Sennott, Author of The Body and The Blood, The Holy Land’s Christians at the Turn of the New Millennium, A Reporter’s Journey. Charles Sennott is an award winning Middle East correspondent for the Boston Globe, and, until recently, the Globe’s Bureau Chief in Jerusalem. He will discuss his new book on the Christians in the Holy Land, The Body and The Blood.
The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation
Invites you to BOOK SINING LUNCHEEON for Charles Sennott, Author of
The Body and The Blood, The Holy Land’s Christians at the Turn of the New Millennium, A Reporter’s Journey.
Charles Sennott is an award winning Middle East correspondent for the Boston Globe, and, until recently, the Globe’s Bureau Chief in Jerusalem. He will discuss his new book on the Christians in the Holy Land, The Body and The Blood. Retracing Jesus’ steps in the land where he lived and preached, Sennott finds similar themes resonating today as they did two thousand years ago: economic injustice, military occupation, religious extremism, apocalyptic prophecies and the quest to control Jerusalem. Sennott takes a journalistic pilgrimage through the vanishing Christian communities of the Holy Land, from Bethlehem and Nazareth, to Egypt and Lebanon, and finally to Jerusalem itself. Sennott tries to understand why Christianity is disappearing in the land where the faith began. A century ago, Christians represented 20% of the population in Palestine. Today they comprise less than 2% of the population and demographers contend that in two generations, native Christianity may virtually disappear from the Holy Land.
Date: Sunday, December 16, 2001 TIME: 12:00-3:00 P.M.
WHERE: Mama Aysha Restaurant
1967 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC 20906
(202) 232-5431 Intersection of Connecticut Ave. and Calvert Street.
Minimum Donation: $25.00 per person
Please bring a friend or sponsor someone who is new to the plight of the Holy Land Christians.
Please RSVP by December 13, 2001
A limited number of seats are available to the Luncheon.
For registration or for more information: contact Luma Haj (301) 871-9222, Fax: (301) 871-2277, Email: news@hcef.org, P.O. Box 6687, Silver Spring, MD 20906 or visit our web site at www.hcef.org
If you are unable to attend your support by sending your donation is highly appreciated
(The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation is a tax exempt501 , non-profit organization committed to improving the lives of Christians in the Holy Land by developing bonds of solidarity with Christians in the United States. HCEF, PO Box 6687, Silver Spring, MD 20906. (301) 871-9222, Fax (301) 871-2277. www.hcef.org. email: news@hcef.org, Toll Free (866) 871-4233)
