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Ahli Arab Hospital’s Suhaila Tarazi shares news of current conditions in Gaza in these uncertain days. In late March, Ahli Arab Hospital Director Suhaila Tarazi joined a Zoom conversation with members of Epiphany Parish in Seattle as part of the Bearing Witness curriculum. At the end of...

“God will never leave this hospital. Ahli Hospital is a witness to God’s miracles and to the love of God. Our American friends are witnesses to God’s love. You are our partners in hope.” – Suhaila Tarazi, Arab Ahli Hospital On May 10, 2021, a...

“We always have our doors open to any member of the faculty who wants to take our students to new places.” — Archdeacon Samuel Barhoum, director of Christ Episcopal School When five physics students at Christ Episcopal School in Nazareth are the first students in the...

On Sunday, October 17, the Most Rev. Hosam Naoum, Archbishop of Jerusalem, preached at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Boston. His four-day visit to meet with the American Friends board of trustees marked his first trip to the U.S. since his installation as archbishop in May....

Recently bishop-coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, the Rt. Rev. Hosam Naoum, joined some of his American friends to talk about the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf and other ministries of the Diocese. Despite the challenges brought by the pandemic and the ongoing...

Giovanni Anbar, general director of the Episcopal Technological and Vocational Training Center (ETVTC) in Ramallah, West Bank, talks with John Lent, executive director of American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem (AFEDJ), about the mission of the school and current conditions in the West...

Suhaila Tarazi, general director of Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, talks with AFEDJ’s John Lent about the mission of the hospital and current conditions in Gaza. The conversation took place via Zoom on July 9, 2020. Ahli Arab Hospital, the only Christian hospital in...

Dua’a Bisharat, principal of Saviour’s Episcopal School in Zarqa, Jordan, talks with AFEDJ’s John Lent about the mission of the school and current conditions in Jordan. The conversation took place via Zoom on July 7, 2020. Saviour’s Episcopal School is a progressive K-12 school in...

Ibrahim Faltas, general director of the Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre (JPBC), talks with AFEDJ’s John Lent about current conditions in East Jerusalem and the West Bank and how JPBC has adapted the services it offers amidst the pandemic and economic shutdown. JPBC is an internationally-accredited...

On Sunday, June 14, the Very Rev. Hosam Naoum will be consecrated as the Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. The service will be live-streamed beginning at 4 p.m. local time (9 a.m. EDT and 6 a.m. PDT) from St. George’s Cathedral in...