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After 18 months students and parents welcome the reopening of St. Luke’s, a safe haven in the midst of chaos in Lebanon Ms. Ikhlas, a veteran teacher of autistic children at St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Center, is the sole source of income for her two daughters...

“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...

With your support and a generous $40,000 grant from the Holy Land Christians Society, families from across Lebanon are receiving desperately needed monthly food vouchers. In August Archdeacon Imad Zoorob, the sole Episcopal priest in Lebanon and Syria, distributed $75 food vouchers to 27 staff...

Four years ago, Ahmad, a boy born with a rare genetic syndrome, was granted permission to travel from his home in Gaza to receive evaluation and treatment at the Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre (JPBC).  During Ahmad’s three-week stay JPBC developed an individualized therapy treatment plan and...

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....

visit the gallery for more photos (Cathedral photos by Bridget Wood/Diocese of Massachusetts) Nearly 100 American friends from the Diocese of Massachusetts and some traveling from as far away as California and Alabama, gathered at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston on October...

A $550,000 federal grant will add an elevator and renovate a rooftop playground, giving all children access to science classrooms, the school library and the new play area  AFEDJ has been awarded a grant from USAID’s American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) to fund an...

Leaders at Saviour’s Episcopal School in Zarqa, Jordan, and the Arab Episcopal School (AES) in Irbid, Jordan, are seeing the economic impact of the pandemic on Jordanian families. With many parents unemployed since March of 2020, families have been forced to send their children to overcrowded, low-performing public...

Suhaila Tarazi, director of Ahli Hospital in Gaza, shared news from Gaza City last week: “The socioeconomic situation in Gaza is catastrophic. Human beings were designed to hope, so when people struggle to maintain hope and lose hope, the suffering will increase.  “Unemployment among new...

On Monday, as he waited for hours behind 70 cars to buy a half tank of gas, Archdeacon Imad Zoorob didn’t need to read the New York Times’ front page story about the economic crisis in Lebanon. He has been living with the impact of the rapidly...