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Dear Friends, Thank you for opening your hearts to those suffering in Gaza and Israel. Your financial support over the past eight days has been extraordinary. Thanks to you, the doors of Ahli Arab Hospital remain open to treat those injured by the horrific bombing.While...

“There’s no sleeping in Gaza.” – Suhaila Tarazi, director of Ahli Arab Hospital Click here for A Litany for the Restoration of Peace in the Holy Land Dear Friends, The disaster happening in Palestine and Israel is heartbreaking and tragic. Violence between Jews and Arabs...

Click here for a pdf of the litany A Litany for the Restoration of Peace the Holy Land God of peace, we pray for the people of Palestine and Israel in these perilous and dangerous times. For all who are fearful for the safety of...

Almost every class of the adult culinary arts diploma program offered at the Episcopal Technological and Vocational Training Center (ETVTC) in Ramallah includes a few women. Some are housewives who want to supplement family income by starting a home cooking or baking business. Others, like...

and the friendship of many American friends Last fall when clergy and members of St. John’s Norwood in Chevy Chase, MD, learned that their friends at St. Luke’s Hospital in the northern West Bank city of Nablus needed to raise more than $114,000 to purchase...

Bishop Hosam Naoum will be installed as the Bishop of the Diocese of Jerusalem, bearing the title Archbishop at 4 p.m. (9 a.m. EDT) on Thursday, May 13, 2021, Ascension Day, at St. George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem. Watch the live-stream of the installation service below. In...

COVID surge and lack of vaccine threaten to overwhelm healthcare systems in the West Bank and Gaza “The situation is really very scary in Gaza.” — Suhaila Tarazi, director of Ahli Arab Hospital Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported this week that hospitals in the West...

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...

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.Proverbs 17:17 Last year on this date I was visiting the Diocese of Jerusalem schools and hospitals you so generously support. No one knew what lay ahead in 2020. None...