Members of the team receive threats by settlers. The CPT women's apartment has twice been hit by bullets fired from the roof of the Avraham Avinu settlement.

Special for Come and See, August 24, 2001

Israel Soldiers took positions on the roof of one of the Lutheran church buildings in Beit Jala, with tanks stationed immediately outside the entrance to the church premises.

Special for Come and See, August 27th, 2001

Life Agape is calling believers in the Holy Land for a day of fasting and prayer on Friday the 24th of August.

Special for Come and See

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

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

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

The town of the birth of Jesus is a stage of continous violence in the last few days

Special for Come and See

The new spokeswoman is Hanan Ashrawi, a Christian from Jerusalem.

The Associated Press, Tue 10 Jul 2001

Christians in the Holy Land are also among the victims of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

By Amos Harel, Ha'aretz Correspondent