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mirkobloom77 · 2 days

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‼️🇵🇸 ✝️ Palestinian Christians pray on Orthodox Palm Sunday in Gaza City

🔸 Source: Al Jazeera (main post) & Dawoud Abu Alkas (footage)

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #palestine news #jerusalem #tel aviv #christianity #christian faith #palestinian christians #palm sunday

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intersectionalpraxis · 30 days

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violottie · 30 days

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Palestinian Christians in Gaza observe Easter amid Israel's war on the besieged enclave.⁠" from Al Jazeera English, 31/Mar/2024:

#easter #happy easter #christianity #christian #palestinian christians #faith #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah #humanity

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holyandhaunted · 1 month

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This Good Friday and Easter i especially think about our Christian siblings and community in Gaza, who are facing genocide, famine and possible extinction

#gaza #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #christianity #palestinian christians

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palipunk · 1 year

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This Christmas I am thinking about Palestinian Christians - who make up the oldest Christian community in the world.

Palestinian Christians, like Palestinians of other faiths, were also dispossessed of their homes and lands during the Nakba and experience the brutality of the occupation just as much as any other Palestinian does. Pilgrimages to occupied Palestine frequently ignore the entire existence of Palestinian Christians - who are routinely barred from visiting their own holy and ancestral sites.

Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera reporter who was assassinated by Israel while covering an IOF raid on Jenin, was a Palestinian Christian. Edward Said, the author of Orientalism, was raised Christian from a Palestinian Christian family.

Palestine is not a Muslim cause, it’s not even an Arab cause, and it’s not a religious conflict - Free Palestine is a cause for all Palestinians against colonialism, including Palestinian Christians. Merry Christmas to Palestinian Christians.

#Christianity #palestinian Christians #palestine #free palestine #merry christmas #saif talks

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sayruq · 19 days

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#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #christians #christianity #palestinian resistance #palestinian christians

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akajustmerry · 20 days

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#palestine #gaza #free palestine #palestinian christians #anat.international #tiktok #videos #/

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aichabouchareb · 5 months

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💔🤬My God. They discover the obliterated and desecrated remains of their dear mother who was bombed to death moments ago by the United States and Israel. SHAME ON THIS WORLD and all of its cowardly leaders. I’m ashamed to be human right now.

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many-sparrows · 5 months

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Nativity at Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, Palestine, for Advent 2023. Photos from Pastor Munther Isaac.

#has anyone shared this yet?#christians pray for palestine #palestinian Christians #arab christians #religion #all eyes on palestine #godblr #Palestine #liberation theology #Advent #christmas #christ #nativity #baby jesus #Emmanuel

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divinum-pacis · 16 days

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An elderly Palestinian Christian lights a candle during mass in the Greek Orthodox Dormition of the Virgin Mary Church in the West Bank village of Aboud, November 7, 2010. UPI/Debbie Hill

#religion #christianity #orthodoxy #greek orthodox #christians #palestinian christians #women #people #west bank #palestine #divinum-pacis

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probablyasocialecologist · 4 months

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“I see God in the rubble,” said Munther Isaac, the Palestinian pastor of a landmark Lutheran church in Bethlehem, the West Bank town revered by Christians as Jesus’ birthplace. “And Christ was born under occupation.”

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In Bethlehem, where many local Christians have relatives in Gaza, the Christmas holiday will be marked by prayers, church services and the annual procession of Christian patriarchs — but the more joyous traditional trappings are being eschewed. No twinkling Christmas lights, no lavishly decorated tree in Manger Square, no festive parade with marching bands. “How could we celebrate?” asked the town’s mayor, Hanna Hanania, whose office overlooks a nearly deserted Manger Square. The flagstone plaza facing the Church of the Nativity, a pilgrimage site for Christians the world over, is usually bustling at this time of year, but most of the souvenir shops and restaurants lining it are tightly shuttered. Bethlehem, where once-majority Christians now make up fewer than one-fifth of the town’s population of some 30,000, is a microcosm of the West Bank’s woes. Checkpoints hem it in, and the stony terraced hills — where shepherds watched their flocks by night, as the traditional Christmas carol has it — are transversed by a hulking Israeli security barrier. Surrounded by Jewish settlements, the town is home to two Palestinian refugee camps that seethe with unrest and are regularly raided by Israeli troops. “It’s not the little town of the Bible anymore,” said the Rev. Mitri Raheb, president of Bethlehem’s Dar al-Kalima University. At 61, he remembers when the unobstructed view from his nearby family home was a mountainside that turned green in spring rains. Now it is topped by a settlement, one of nearly 150 in the West Bank, which are considered illegal under international law. For Palestinian Christians, the current war marks a catastrophe embedded within a catastrophe: the potential eradication of what was already a minuscule Christian presence in Gaza. Numbering fewer than 1,000 out of a population of more than 2 million, the community’s wartime losses are disproportionately felt. Many Bethlehem-area Christians have relatives in Gaza, and are terrified for their safety.

#palestine #bethlehem #christianity #Munther Isaac #palestinian christians #west bank #christmas

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vyorei · 5 months

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Bethlehem is the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Christmas celebration has been cancelled for Palestinian Christians this year and the infant Christ has been placed in rubble in a powerful statement.

Watch the video below, learn more.

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violottie · 1 month

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"Many Palestinian Christians are unable to celebrate Easter this year, as Israel’s bombardment of Gaza continues.

"Gaza’s Christian community of less than 1,000 people is facing threats of extinction. Palestinian Christian pastor Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac shares his message for the world about the plight of Palestinians this Easter." from AJ Plus, 31/Mar/2024:

#easter #happy easter #christianity #palestinian christians #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah #human rights #social justice #this is genocide

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protest-for-peace · 4 months

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merry christmas to all who celebrate it. israel massacred 250 civilians in their homes in the last 24 hours and has cancelling celebrating christmas in the holy city of bethlehem, where jesus was born.

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #genocide #palestinians #gaza strip #gazaunderattack #isreal #save gaza #christmas #holidays #xmas #bethlehem #palestinian christians #christmas in palestine

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a-queer-seminarian · 1 month

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Decolonizing Palestine (2023) by Mitri Raheb: a Palestinian Christian’s call for a theological paradigm shift

As I dig into various responses to Israel’s colonization of Palestine, this book has become my top recommendation for Christians.

Lutheran pastor Dr. Mitri Raheb (b. 1962) is Palestine’s most widely published Christian theologian. His latest text, Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, the People, the Bible, could hardly have been more timely, coming out just a few months before the events of October 7, 2023.

If you are Christian — or are otherwise interested in unpacking how Christian theology has fueled Israeli settler-colonialism, and what Christian theology that centers and supports the Palestinian cause might look like — I strongly urge you to read the book in full. But if you don't have the time or inclination, I've published a Medium article that provides a thorough summary of his book.

Click here for the full review & summary of the book; what follows below the is a much briefer summation of Raheb's main points:

Western Christian theology today is dominated by Christian Zionism, all forms of implicitly endorse the oppression of Palestinians.

While conservative forms of Christian Zionism, with their focus on Israel’s supposed role in the Second Coming, tend to be centered, Raheb proposes a definition of Christian Zionism that reckons with “liberal” forms of Christian Zionism as well.

His definition emphasizes action over belief: “I argue that Christian Zionism should be defined as a Christian lobby that supports the Jewish settler colonialism of Palestinian land by using biblical/theological constructs within a metanarrative while taking glocal considerations into account.”

A paradigm shift is urgently needed in Christian theology, one that applies the lens of settler colonialism to our biblical interpretation.

Of the book’s four chapters, much of the first two focus on presenting Palestinian history through this lens, successfully arguing that modern Israel is a settler colonial state funded by Western powers:

“Today, empire is bigger than one state, nation, or military power. …Israel is part of this empire and is sustained by it” with both the “hardware” of military weapons, and the “software” of “a biblical blueprint that paints colonial practices with theological justifications of a ‘promised land’ and ‘chosen people.’”

To move towards a decolonial theology, our two hermeneutical keys are the land and the native people of Palestine. Understanding Palestine as:

the name of the “multiethnic, multicultural, and multireligious region that was able to include diverse identities and peoples within its boundaries” for the past 2,500 years; and

a land on the margins of “five regional empires that have determined its fate” for millennia,

we come to recognize that the voices lifted up in the Bible are colonized voices, those who are oppressed by and who resist Empire.

This lens helps us understand the theme of chosenness or “election” as well:

in Deuteronomy, Isaiah, and elsewhere in scripture, “Election was and will always be…a promise to those weak and powerless, to those who begin to despair about themselves. …It is with a notion like election that the people of Palestine were able to face the diverse imperial occupations throughout millennia.”

Therefore, the appropriation of the concept of election by various imperial powers, from the British Empire to the United States to modern Israel, is completely contrary to its biblical significance.

That sums up Raheb’s main points in Decolonizing Palestine; for more information, go read his book — or read my full article over on Medium!

#decolonizing palestine #mitri raheb #palestinian christians #palestinian theology #christian zionism #free palestine #books #essays

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claraameliapond · 4 months

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Palestine: Christian children of Bethlehem, Palestine hold silent Christmas march for Gaza , condemning Israel's genocide

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