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Balfour Declaration

Wednesday December 25

A large Palestinian family and friends in Jerusalem in 1944 before the Nakba

Palestine: A land with a people

“Out of God’s sovereignty I believe that good will come out of all this. God knows what is going on and he will bring about a just peace and something good, even if we as human beings can’t see it yet; and, even though Palestinians have been waiting for a very long time,” says Anglican Palestinian Randa

Six people in front of a cathedral sanctuary smiling while looking at the camera

Christian, Muslim and Jewish community leaders unite for a just peace, condemning the ongoing atrocities committed by Israel in Palestine

Christian, Muslim and Jewish community leaders united for a just peace, condemning the ongoing atrocities being committed by Israel in Palestine, during the weekend’s International Day of Peace commemorations at St John’s Anglican Cathedral

"One example of the persecution towards young people in both the West Bank and Gaza, which are both occupied, is the indefinite detention without charges...Layan Nasir, a young Anglican Palestinian aged 24, has had her safety and freedom stripped away since her abduction and detention without formal charges by Israeli soldiers in April this year," (LM, a young St Andrew's, Indooroopilly parishioner)

Why I am organising an inter-faith prayer vigil for Gaza with other young people

“With the relentless bombing in Gaza, I think about the future of the young Palestinians there if they do live. More than 16,000 of the 40,000 people killed in Gaza are children. However, even surviving this statistic as a young person in Gaza means living in constant fear of being killed, grief from loss of family and friends and displacement from your home with no protection or safe place to go,” says a secondary school student and St Andrew’s, Indooroopilly parishioner

Journeying and pilgrimage

The Rev’d Dr Ray Barraclough explores the Christian traditions of ‘journeying’ and ‘pilgrimage’, with a particular focus on the continuing trauma experienced by both Jews in Israel and Palestinians in ‘the Occupied Territories’