Obama to visit Bethlehem

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wife_of_mahmoud, Thank you for sharing this information with me. The photos were also interesting and informative.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

wife_of_mahmoud, Thank you for sharing this information with me. The photos were also interesting and informative.

Always my pleasure - I am happy you found it interesting

By the way, the priest walking next to Obama in this pic:

is Patriarch Theophills III, the Orthodox Church's Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine.

He is the first signatory to the "Kairos Palestine" document, which I've mentioned a couple of times here in discussions about Palestinian Christians. This document, written by Christian Palestinian leaders, testifies to what is happening in Palestine because of Israel's occupation and to the Palestinian people in general, as well as to the Christian community there, and it pleads for help from the international community:

This document is the Christian Palestinians’ word to the world about what is happening in Palestine. It is written at this time when we wanted to see the Glory of the grace of God in this land and in the sufferings of its people. In this spirit the document requests the international community to stand by the Palestinian people who have faced oppression, displacement, suffering and clear apartheid for more than six decades. The suffering continues while the international community silently looks on at the occupying State, Israel. Our word is a cry of hope, with love, prayer and faith in God. We address it first of all to ourselves and then to all the churches and Christians in the world, asking them to stand against injustice and apartheid, urging them to work for a just peace in our region, calling on them to revisit theologies that justify crimes perpetrated against our people and the dispossession of the land.

In this historic document, we Palestinian Christians declare that the military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity, and that any theology that legitimizes the occupation is far from Christian teachings because true Christian theology is a theology of love and solidarity with the oppressed, a call to justice and equality among peoples.

http://www.kairospalestine.ps/sites/default/Documents/English.pdf

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He just looks like somebody I would like to know.