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For years, Giovanni Anbar, the founder and director of the Episcopal Technological and Vocational Training Center (ETVTC) in Ramallah, has depended on the Center’s guesthouse for a steady income stream to cover operating expenses.  Before the pandemic, ETVTC’s ten-room guesthouse offered students in the hospitality...

As our brothers and sisters across the Holy Land live with the threat of a widespread COVID-19 outbreak, they also must negotiate the devastating impact that intermittent shutdowns and the disappearance of tourism have had on the economies in the region. In recent months, American...

With the arrival of coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown – when all therapy sessions were forced online – the Centre’s leaders made a surprising discovery. A core program at the Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre (JPBC) has been a two-week residential session for families with children...

Gaza will soon enter its seventh week of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since August more than 2,500 people have tested positive and the healthcare system – already deteriorating from 13 years of blockade and deep cuts in international aid – is overwhelmed. But...

On September 13, 2020, John Lent, executive director of American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem (AFEDJ), spoke with members of Westmoreland United Church of Christ in Bethesda, Maryland, about the state of healthcare in Gaza and the West Bank, the impact of COVID...

Supporting the schools of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem is at the heart of AFEDJ’s mission. Whether it’s the progressive, academic schools where the Christian values imparted help to form the leaders of the next generation, the vocational schools that prepare non-traditional learners and vulnerable...

Dear Friends, News from Gaza this morning is grim. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported five deaths and 98 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. This brings the number of active cases to 596.  For the first six months of the pandemic,...

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...

In the three weeks since the horrific explosion that left more than 300,000 residents of Beirut homeless and affected more than 778,000 people within a two-mile radius of the blast, your generous response to Archbishop Suheil Dawani’s call for donations has already made a difference...

Two days ago, in the midst Lebanon’s deepening economic crisis and growing civil unrest, the world was stunned by the footage of the horrific explosion at the port of Beirut. The shock of the blast destroyed nearby buildings and shattered glass up to three miles...