"I will serve the church and I support the Palestinian people and their just issues," he said in a statement after his election

Danny Rubinstein, Ha'aretz, August 14, 2001

Dr. George Carey visited Israel and the Palestinian Authority last week. He urged the Christians not to leave but to "stay put, make your mark but share your message with the rest of us around the world."
A Local Christian writes an open letter to comment on these statements

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Heads of Churches in Jerusalem call upon the Palestinian people throughout the Land to join in intensifying prayers for peace, with justice and reconciliation. Special daily prayers for peace will take place for two weeks.

August 8, 2001

Civil rights organizations are delighted at the activities of local leaders of foreign workers. But they seem to have been marked for arrest and deportation by the Interior Ministry and the police. In this context it also raids churches and arrests clergy

By Joseph Algazy, Haaretz, August 7, 2001

IDF troops backed by police prevented human rights activists and the Christian Peacemakers Team of south Mt. Hebron to bring blankets, tents, material for making tents, and household supplies for families the army evicted from caves in early July

Amira Hass, Haaretz, August 7, 2001

70 volunteers in a Christian Peacemakers group believe their bodies will serve as human shields to protect the Palestinians in the town of Beit Jala that is battered by 10 months of gunfights and Israeli tank shelling. The Associated Press, August 3, 2001

"King?s Kids" is bringing Arab believing youth and Messianic youth together as one in Christ. Next month, they travel together on a mission trip to Romania

Special for Come and See, July 31