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Praying for Peace in Israel and Palestine

Praying for Peace in Israel and Palestine. The Moderator offers a prayer for peace.

 

http://www.united-church.ca/communications/news/moderator/121121

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Cedar Worship Centre: Where United Church members and Jews Worship and Work Together

Only in Kitchener, Ontario do a United Church congregation and a Jewish synagogue work together and share a building.

 

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And Rabbi Cohen says “We believe in what ever we may disagree in smaller details we will not let that interfere between the overall relationship between the two congregations.

Read more: http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/united-church-of-canada-s-stance-on-israeli-...

 



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Think twice before we do something we may regret later

 

A boycott of goods made in the settlements within the West Bank is largely symbolic.  After months of conversation and debate, few can name a product that the United Church might boycott.  So it is symbolic.

 

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TAKE ACTION: United Church Calls for End to Home Demolitions in West Bank Village

TAKE ACTION: United Church calls for action to support the people of Susiya, in the West Bank, who are facing forced displacement and demolition of their homes.

Visit www.united-church.ca/getinvolved/takeaction/120726 to learn what's happening and how you can respond!

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The United Church Observer: General Council Meets the Press

A great article from The United Church Observer:

 

General Council Meets the Press

by Brian Platt

 

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Palestinians who want peace

What's long been missing on the Palestinian side is a peace movement. In the last few years this has begun to change. I've previously mentioned the One Voice movement. Here's another voice, a posting from Mahmoud Jabari, a young citizen journalist who lives in Hebron...

 

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Palestinian Christians endorse murder – and that’s okay by the United Church

called the Kairos Palestine Document. Written by a group of Palestinian Christians, the aim of the Kairos Document is the elimination of Israe,l and it urges economic warfare through a boycott.

 

The document also approves “armed resistance” against Israel as carried out by “some political parties,” meaning Hamas and other terrorist groups.  However, the document rejects the charge of terrorism, labelling the murder of Israelis as “legal resistance.”

 

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A peace initiative

More than 60,000 Palestinians expected to visit Israel as tourists in 2011

The permits are not usually issued to individuals or families, but mainly to schools and summer camps wishing to take children to visit beaches and mixed Jewish-Arab cities in Israel.

By Anshel Pfeffer

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Most Palestians support killing Jews, reject 2-state solution - poll

Palestinian children at summer camp

Here's the latest bad news from the Middle East....

6 in 10 Palestinians reject 2-state solution, survey finds

By GIL HOFFMAN 
07/15/2011 04:26

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