Anglican Communion News Service

The spot in Manger Square where Johnny Thaljieh fell has already become a shrine, or perhaps an exhibit. His blackening blood on the cobblestones is surrounded by rocks and blue metal barricades, to honor his memory and to shield the evidence of what his family said was a random slaying by Israeli soldiers after church on Saturday.

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Archbishop of Canterbury George L. Carey and Archbishop of Armagh (Ireland) Robin Eames made a sobering three-day visit at the end of July to Israel, Gaza and the West Bank and ended with an urgent plea for peace.

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Many families have been made homeless;
The Closures have turned towns and cities into Detention Camps;
The number of un-employed has risen dramatically resulting in tens of thousands hungry for their daily bread;
Whilst our children are confronted daily with a picture of bloodshed, violence, assassinations and murder.

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In a few moments, in our Eucharist liturgy we will listen again to those words, which are so central to this service and to our recollection of the presence of God. Jesus said "do this in remembrance of me." Remembrance of me. The one direct and complete, and unequivocal direction that our Lord gave to his friends.

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Saturday 28 July 2001

Sunday 29 July 2001

Monday 30 July 2001

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The Rt Revd Ishaq Musa'ad, Bishop of Egypt with North Africa 1974-81 and the first Egyptian Bishop of the Diocese, died on 17 July in Cairo, after a lifetime of dedicated service. Isaq Musa'ad was born in Assiut on 21 January 1911.

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Jerusalem 2000, the Archbishop of Canterbury's Millennium Appeal for the beleaguered Church in the Holy Land, has committed much of the money already raised in an initial round of grants. These grants will help the Church in its task of serving the community through the provision of hospitals, schools and other civic amenities.

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St. George's College Jerusalem is opening its doors to students preparing for ordination in the Anglican tradition. With the endorsement of their Bishop, such students will be welcome to register for any course through the end of 2002 at a 50% savings, space permitting.

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ABRAHAM YESTERDAY AND TODAY, Interfaith Heritage and The Holy Land, has been slated in the college programme in response to the often requested plea for interfaith educational opportunities and encounter under the direction of the College, an institution of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem.

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As members of the St George's College Jerusalem Foundation, a continuing education center of the Anglican Communion, we urge Anglicans/Episcopalians around the world, to "pray without ceasing" for their Christian brothers and sisters in the Holy Land.

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Events of the past weekend mark a turning point in the Israeli/Palestinian strife. The unprovoked murder by the IDF of five Palestinian policemen, the Palestinian suicide bomber's retaliation that killed six Israelis, and then the massive IDF retaliation with missiles into Gaza and F16 fighters into Nablus have set into motion more wheels than I know.

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The Bishop in Jerusalem, the Rt Revd Riah Abu El Assal, has asked the Anglican Communion News Service to encourage its readers to read and sign the current petition being circulated by the Palestinian people on the internet.

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The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, The Rt Revd Riah Abu-El-Assal, called for religious tolerance and understanding in his homeland. While in London for a meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Jerusalem 2000 Committee, a fund-raising and awareness-raising project of the Anglican Communion, Bishop Riah spoke with emotion about the situation of Anglican Christians and indeed all Christians face in the Holy Land.

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We, in the Diocese of Jerusalem, extend our heartfelt appreciation and gratitude for your prayers, solidarity and support during these difficult times in our Land. Our people continue to suffer and still expect a more effective role from the Church in the world, as well as from the Church in the Land.

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All the bishops of Christian Churches in Jerusalem appealed for a rapid end to "the conflict that affects thousand of lives in this land."

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The Joint Relief Ministry (JRM), a combined service consisting of the Anglican and Presbyterian churches of Egypt is giving relief to thousand refugees in dire straits, who fled their home country as civil war rages unabated in Sudan.

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On its last day in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, an ecumenical peace delegation of American Church leaders met with the mayor of Jerusalem, officials at the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the top Palestinian leader in Jerusalem-and issued a final statement at a press conference in mid-December.

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Addressing a group of church leaders, journalists and NGO representatives in London earlier this week, Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal clearly carried the weight of the suffering of the Palestinian community; he looked tired and reflected his peoples' desperation.

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In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrolment, when Quirin'i-us was governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David

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Dr. Fawzy El Zefzaf & Dr. Ali El Simman, the Deputies of the Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar, Dr. Said Tantawi together with Bishop Mouneer H. Anis of the Anglican Church in Egypt and North Africa, Bishop Yohanna Kolta representing Patriarch Estaphenous II of the Roman Catholic Church in Egypt and Bishop Moses representing Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church

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In her interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" (Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000), US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright represented the epitome of the willful blindness, moral vacuum, human insensitivity, political cynicism, and strategic ignorance that have characterized the US handling of the Arab-Israeli

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There is no doubt that the current violent conflict targeting the Liberated Palestinian Territories, Jerusalem and the Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel has markedly escalated over the past twenty-four hours.

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The whole Diocese, both clergy and laity, is distressed by the current state of affairs in our Land of the Holy One. Naturally we extend our condolences to all the bereaved families and our prayers for recovery and healing to the thousands of victims and their families who have been injured in body

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At 26, Hosam Naoum is the youngest Anglican priest in the Diocese of Jerusalem, and also its most recent. He was ordained priest in September 1999 and works in the West Bank parishes of Rafedia/Nablus and Zababdeh. He can claim to be Christian, Arab, Palestinian and Israeli, but says he doesn't have an identity crisis! His background is both Christian and Arab, his family have lived on the West Bank for generations in the area still called Palestine, and he carries an Israeli passport.

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The Most Revd Iraj Mottahedeh, Bishop of Iran, has been appointed the new President Bishop and Primate of the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East.

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Over the last decade or so an Anglican school chaplaincy has grown into a congregation and recently into a Mission District. In late 1989 the Serian Anglican Congregation was formed from a small group of civil servants in Serian. They had visiting priests to lead their services, held in a different house each Sunday.

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(LWI) Prompted by increased tension between Iraq and some Western powers and the subsequent military buildup in the region, the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) has turned to the ecumenical network "Action by Churches Together" (ACT) urgently asking for help. ACT's Iraq emergency relief appeal, sponsored by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and World Council of Churches (WCC) amounts to USD 2 million.

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(ENI)At an historic meeting in Cyprus, 20 leaders of Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant churches in the Middle East have called attention to the falling numbers and resources of Christians living in the region where Christianity began. The church leaders attending the high-level meeting also promised to cooperate with each other and with their Muslim neighbours to overcome difficulties faced by Christians.

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A new academy for inter religious and intercultural studies which has been launched in Bethlehem is expected to promote relationships between Christians and Muslims. To be known as Dar Al-Kalima (House of the Word), the academy will serve Christians and Churches in the mainly Muslim countries of Asia and Africa, and will research the theology and church practices of these Christian communities. The academy will also provide information about the Palestinian people in an attempt to break their relative isolation.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury is to be urged at the next year's Lambeth Conference to help exiled Palestinian Christians return to Jerusalem.

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