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Thanks to your generosity, we’ve raised over $85k in unrestricted donations during our Spring campaign. BUT WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP. In the Holy Land, conditions can change in an instant. When war and unrest strike, the pressing needs of institutions – fuel to power...

Q&A with Bishop Greg and Marti Rickel: Taking the next step along the pilgrim way Bishop Greg and Marti Rickel have made many pilgrimages to the Holy Land. In October 2022 they accompanied AFEDJ trustees and sta! on site visits to a dozen diocesan schools,...

Remember our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land Linked below are prayers that can be shared with church members and personal, pilgrim stories from AFEDJ trustees and Diocese of Jerusalem leaders that can be used by preachers in their sermons on June 19. You...

By David PaulsenEpiscopal News Service [link to story on ENS] [Episcopal News Service] Student employees at an Episcopal church’s mission store in Montclair, New Jersey, are supporting children thousands of miles away through a campaign to raise money for an Anglican medical center in East...

When the outpatient clinic at Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza collapsed into its foundation in early December, it seemed like the culmination of anannus horribilis for the 120 year-old institution. Clashes at the border and deep unrest in Gaza last spring, the effects of U.S. cuts...

As the only charitable hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus (population 350,000), St. Luke’s Hospital, which is owned and operated by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, depended on a fully-functional ambulance to offer safe transport of its patients. In 2017 alone, its 15...

In 1860, Johann Schneller, a German missionary, founded a home in Jerusalem for boys who lost their parents in the con ict between the Christians and the Druze, with his son Theodor taking over in 1889. One legacy of the original “Syrian Orphanage” is the...