“You drive the car. I know you miss driving,” said Fr. Firas while driving me home from a visit to the Jenin refugee camp, a few miles from his church in Zababdeh, West Bank. “But I don’t know how to drive stick!” I cried, knowing that in a few minutes...
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When I wanted to go to graduate school, I wrote a list of my dream schools, created a budget and spoke to my supervisor at work. I never had to consider whether I would be physically able to reach the school due to, say, Canadian restrictions on my...
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People go to their respective places of worship everyday. They go up the steps and walk in the door, maybe to the sound of birds chirping, buses whirring past or a choir beginning to sing. Here in the West Bank, the Call to Prayer is a beautiful sound of...
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Abuna (Father) Firas is determined to make a difference for his congregation and his town, Zababdeh, close to Jenin in the West Bank. Through out my time in Palestine, I look forward to Sunday visits to Zababdeh for church and some time with Abuna Firas and his family....
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CPTnet Digest, Volume 32, Issue 11 A newsletter written by members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams 21 August 2010 Every Saturday for the last several months, Youth Against the Settlements has led a nonviolent action “Open Shuhada Street” at the entrance to the Old City of Hebron. On Tuesday, 10 August 2010 the Israeli...
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Read the original article on www.antiwar.com AZZUN ATMA, Northern West Bank – For seven years Majda Abdul Qader Sheikh, 38, has not been allowed to visit the home of her parents, just a few hundred meters from her house. “I tried to get a special visitor’s permit for a quick visit...
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