“The experience of the Palestinians from their homeland is the sacred”

Vatican News

As in the form of the agency VicatatIn the Holy Land, “Darkness will not prevail.” With these words from Esperanza Pascual, based on the Bible according to Sant John, the brief document concludes but the overwhelming of the Ecumenical Reflection Group “Voice of Jerusalem for Justice” (Jerusalem vote for justice).

This statement raises the evangelical hope, with realism and non -controlled, facing the adversity that is still suffering from innocent people in this blessed land.

The reflection group

The reflection group, which was automatically formed, recently appeared in response to the spread of new violence and terrorism in the region, with the aim of sharing perspectives and discrimination on events and operations that affect the lives of people in the land of Jesus. Among its honorable members of the Patriarch in the Latin Jerusalem, Michel Sibat; Luthery Bishop Munib Yun; Ecumenical Center coordinator on Knowsel, Sawsan Bitar; Palestinian theology John Monor; Jesuit Father David Newhaus; Father France Bown is a missionaries in Africa.

Broadcast The voice of Jerusalem is the voice of justice It condemns that “the Israeli army is implementing the greatest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967. According to the Office of Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCA), more than 40,000 Palestinians have been displaced and currently live without refuge, basic services or health care.”

Documenting the two sites

In this context, you remember the signatories of the evangelical ideal document of the good Samaritan, who was the stranger who saves wounds abroad and abandoned the side of the road, after the others ignored.

“Reverend Martin Luther King – on the group – suggested that those who passed, have they come out of fear: What will happen to me if you stop? Reverend King wrote, on the other hand, the righteous Samaritan asked another question: What will happen to him if he spent?

The signatories of the document express their fear of the possible imminent annexation of the Palestinian territories by Israel. They point out that the increasing use of the names of “Judea and Samaria” (instead of the occupied West Bank) and the exploitation of the biblical terms to manipulate the current political facts are the manifestations of the desire to erase Palestine and the Palestinians on the map, “we stress that we are not present.”

The text ends by calling “these Jews and Christians who have been convinced that God wants Israel to comment on our homeland.” The authors want to clarify, “They have been deceived.” “Everything has been created, the Palestinians and the Israelis, in the form of God and the like. They are all the same in dignity and rights.”

In addition, they add the signatories to the text, “Our God is the god of love who hates violence and loves all his children. The Palestinians are their” neighbor “. The uncomfortable will of the word of God that we share is:” I love your neighbor as if you yourself “(the Book of Leviticus 19, 18, Matthew 22, 39, Mark 12, 31, Loki 10, 27,”