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

Director of the Cairo-based Word Centre for Human Rights welcomed the ruling as restoring trust in the Egyptian justice system

Radio Australia, July 31, 2001

Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, the spiritual leader of 73 million Anglicans worldwide: "None of us want Jerusalem and Bethlehem to become Disneyland sites, we want this to be a place of living worship".

CNN, July 30, 2001

Some Christian leaders increase their criticism of Israel's response to Palestinian unrest, angering many in U.S. Jewish community.

By LARRY B. STAMMER, TIMES RELIGION WRITER, Los Angeles Times, July 28, 2001

The spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party, which holds 17 out of the Israeli Parliament's 120 seats and belongs to the coalition government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, earlier this year called Arabs "snakes" and "vipers."

The Times of India, July 29, 2001