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Holy Lands

Thursday December 19

Bishop Daniel Abot standing under gum trees near a wooden cross

Bishop Daniel Abot’s Palm Sunday 2024 message

“I remember my first Palm Sunday. It was in 1987. I was fleeing to Ethiopia from South Sudan, along with thousands of other young boys and girls, to avoid being conscripted as a child soldier. Even though I was only 11 years old at the time, I knew it was Palm Sunday. Because we were fleeing on foot through the bush, the only way we could keep track of time was by the moon. We gathered under a shady tree in prayer to commemorate the special day,” says Bishop Daniel Abot

Last month in Jerusalem

The Rev’d Dr Thomas Meyrick reflects on a recent visit to Jerusalem

"There are so many places that resonate with history, identity and faith, but it is the people — rather than the places — who especially capture my heart. The lives they create and sustain in this most edgy of places engage me profoundly," (The Rev'd Dr Greg Jenks, pictured with a girl from a Bedouin village in 2013)

"It is the people — rather than the places — who especially capture my heart"

“There are so many places that resonate with history, identity and faith, but it is the people — rather than the places — who especially capture my heart…Let me share the stories of meeting a handful of remarkable people over several decades of visiting, working and living in Palestine and its adjacent lands,” says The Rev’d Dr Greg Jenks