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At 2 p.m. on December 6, Suhaila Tarazi, Director of the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, was stunned to receive word that the 120-year-old outpatient clinic located on the hospital grounds suffered a complete and catastrophic collapse. No one was injured in the disaster. According to Hanna...

Leaders from Ahli Hospital in Gaza and the Princess Basma Center in East Jerusalem join AFEDJ Board Chair Bishop Barry Beisner to talk about the drastic impact U.S. cuts in aid will have on the humanitarian institutions of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem.

In early November AFEDJ Trustee Endicott Peabody greeted the people of the Diocese of Jerusalem in Amman, Jordan, as they gathered for the annual Majma. Those present represented 29 congregations and 30 humanitarian institutions. Here’s what he shared with our sisters and brothers of the...

In Zarka, the second largest city in Jordan, the tensions and economic strain of a vast influx of Syrian refugees often cause families under financial stress to choose to educate their sons but pull their daughters from school. But at Saviour’s School, a K-12 school...

AFEDJ Executive Director John Lent and Communications Director Heidi Shott sat down recently with hosts of the Diocese of Connecticut’s podcast, Coffee Hour at the Commons. They talked about the institutions AFEDJ supports, what surprises the region holds for visitors, and how this work informs their...

On October 2, 2018  the Most Rev. Suheil Dawani, Archbishop of the Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East and Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, shared this open letter about the implications of the U.S. Government’s cuts in aid to Palestine. Click here...

“If we don’t receive money for providing therapies for children, we will have no choice but to close down in a few months because we will not have money to pay salaries or our suppliers.” –Ibrahim Faltis, Princess Basma Center Director Check out this story...

Since the announcement in September that the U.S. Government planned to cut $200 million in aid to UNRWA, the United Nations’ agency dedicated to providing humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees, and the news the following week of $25 million in cuts in direct aid to...

This is what we know so far:Since the announcement last week that the U.S. would roll back $200 million in aid pledged to assist Palestinian refugees through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and this week’s news that the U.S. government will cut...

As a part of its commitment to raise awareness and garner support for the institutions it serves, the Board of Trustees of the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem (AFEDJ) is pleased to welcome Heidi Shott of Newcastle, Maine, as its first Communications...