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Friends of Sabeel W O R K I N G T O G E T H E R F O R Ju S T I C E , Patron, Sabeel International AMERIC A NS , PA LESTINI A NS , ISR A ELIS CH A LLENGING THE CHURCHES . The Most Rev. Desmond M. Tutu Friends of Sabeel WORKING TOGETHER FOR JUSTICE , Patron, Sabeel International PE A CE & RECONCILIATION “Israel will never get true security and safety through The Rev. Canon Naim Ateek Voice of the oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be President/Director Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation • American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights, www.aaper.org Palestinian Christians built only on justice.” Theology Center, Jerusalem • Americans for Middle East Understanding, www.ameu.org Archbishop Desmond Tutu • American Jews for a Just Peace, www.ajjp.org Boston Sabeel Conference, April 2002 FOSNA Steering Committee • Baptist Peace Fellowship—North America, www.bpfna.org Officers • Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, www.btvshalom.org “When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot Rt. Rev. Edmond Browning • B’TSELEM, Israeli Info Center for Human Rights in Occupied Territories, but denounce the social structures that give rise to and per- President/Former Presiding Bishop, Episcopal Church USA www.btselem.org/English/index.asp petuate the misery from which the cry arises.” Rev. Canon Richard K. Toll, D.Min., D.D. • Challenging Christian Zionism, www.christianzionism.org Archbishop Oscar Romero (8/6/78) The Church: Called to Repentance, Chairperson • Christian Peacemaker Team, Palestine, www.cpt.org/work/palestine Called to Prophecy Sister Elaine Kelley, SFCC, Administrative Officer • Churches for Middle East Peace, www.cmep.org Mary Hansen, Treasurer/Sisters of the Holy Names Associate • Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Episcopal Church USA, “Justice is done when international law is implemented, Members www.episcopalpeacefellowship.org when peace and its derivatives begin to be felt by the two • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: Peace Not Walls, communities. So long as the injustice persists, hate and its Rev. Fahed Abu-Akel, www.elca.org/peacenotwalls derivatives have the upper hand. In essence, justice and Moderator, Presbyterian Church USA, 214th General Assembly • Free Gaza Movement, www.freegaza.org peace begin when the oppressor becomes aware of its viola- Rev. Robert Assaly, Anglican Dioceses of Ottawa and Montreal • Friends International Center, Ramallah, www.ramallahquakers.org tion of the other's humanity.” Elizabeth Barlow, University of Michigan (retired) • Gush Shalom, www.gush-shalom.org Naim Ateek Ann E. Hafften, World Council of Churches' A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation • Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation, www.hcef.org Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine & Israel • Holy Land Resources, www.holylandresources.net George Adib Khoury, Engineer (retired) “I myself have great hope for change in the Middle East. I • Holy Land Trust, Bethlehem, www.holylandtrust.org have hope because for almost a decade now I have been Joy Lapp, Metropolitan State College of Denver • International Center of Bethlehem, www.annadwa.org coming to Palestine/Israel and in that time I have met with Rev. Darrel Meyers, • Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, www.icahd.org many deeply committed people who have dedicated their Middle East Fellowship of Southern California • Jewish Conscience, www.jewishconscience.org lives to working for a peaceful, just solution to what is one Rosemary Radford Ruether, • Jewish Voice for Peace, www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org of the longest running conflicts in the world. To all these Claremont School of Theology and Graduate University people I offer my support for your non-violent struggle for Sabeel is . • New Profile, www.newprofile.org Grace Said, Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace human rights and democracy.” • Nonviolence International, www.nonviolenceinternational.net (WIAMEP) an international peace movement initiated by Palestinian • Palestine Summer Encounter, www.palestinesummer.org Mairead Maguire Christians in the Holy Land who seek a just peace based Jerusalem, Sabeel 7th International Conference, Nov. 2008 Rev. Donald Wagner, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, • Palestinians and Israelis for Nonviolence, www.pinv.org North Park University on two states—Palestine and Israel—as defined by interna- • Pax Christi International, www.paxchristi.net tional law and existing United Nations resolutions. Sabeel “We should envision a future in which we apply a universal Rev. James M. Wall, The Christian Century • Pax Christi USA, www.paxchristiusa.org promotes theological, moral, and legal principles for peace morality, emanating from our common God, measured by Advisory Board • Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, www.presbypeacefellowship.org a simple standard of behavior, and valid for all people in as outlined in the Jerusalem Sabeel Document. Laila Al-Marayati, KinderUSA • Rabbis for Human Rights, rhr.israel.net www.rhr-na.org all lands. These are the universal standards expressed in the • Refuser Solidarity Network, www.refusersolidarity.org Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and we must renew Mubarak Awad, Nonviolence International Friends of Sabeel—North America is . Kathy Bergen, Friends International Center, Ramallah • Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, our common commitment to live up to them.” a member of Sabeel International, working in the U.S. and Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions www.badil.org Jean Zaru Mark Braverman, Canada to support the vision of Sabeel, cultivating the sup- Occupied with Nonviolence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks • Sojourners-Faith, Politics, Culture, www.sojo.net Rt. Rev. J. Barry Curtis, port of American churches through co-sponsored regional • Stephen Sizer Ministries (Christian Zionism Studies), Archbishop of Rupert's Land, Bishop of Calgary (retired) “The notion that Christians can only have good relations with educational conferences, alternative pilgrimage, witness www.sizers.org Rt. Rev. Thomas Gumbleton, Catholic Diocese of Detroit Jews by turning a blind eye to the plight of the Palestinians trips, and international gatherings in the Holy Land. Gabriel Habib, Middle East Fellowship • United Church of Christ (Disciples of Christ), seems unshakeable. Palestinians are made to pay for the sins www.globalministries.org of Western Christians against the Jews.” Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University • United Methodist Church, General Board of Global Ministries, Rosemary Radford Ruether Zaha Hassan, Attorney at Law Friends of Sabeel—North America www.gbgm-umc.org Speaking the Truth about Zionism and Israel Rashid Khalidi, Middle East Institute, Columbia University PO Box 9186 • Portland, Oregon 97207 • World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Atif Kubursi, McMaster University, Hamilton (Ontario) Canada (503) 653-6625 Program, www.eappi.org Michael Lynk, University of Western Ontario (London) Canada Email: [email protected] • Zochrot (Remembering) www.zochrot.org PLEASE DONATE Afif Safieh, Former Head of PLO Mission to the USA U.S. website: www.fosna.org Canada website: www.sabeel.ca (Membership/Donation Form Enclosed) John Salzberg, United Nations Association Human Rights Task Force A more comprehensive list of websites is available Jerusalem website: www.sabeel.org Non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite Seminary at www.fosna.org. Cornel West, Princeton University TAX ID: 38-3419440 A Call to the Christian Churches A Theology for the Victims “Blessed are the Peacemakers” Join Sabeel Matthew 5:9 Complete and mail this form or donate online www.fosna.org As millions around the world protest U.S. policy in of Injustice to join the movement of North American Christians making the Middle East, Christians in large numbers here at Sabeel Programs: change through prayerful action. Receive the quarterly “The Bible has been used by some western Christians • Pilgrimage and Witness Trips home are organizing in their churches and com- and Jews in a way that has supported injustice rather than Cornerstone theological journal, newsletters and annual • Regional/International Conferences appeals, notifications of regional and international con- munities, working to educate themselves and others justice. Liberation theologians have seen the Bible as a • Theological Education ferences, invitations for pilgrimage and witness trips, and about the Holy Land, to become more effective dynamic source for their understanding of liberation, but advocates for justice and peace. Basic information is • Interfaith Work and Coalition Building email alerts. Any donation amount includes a one-year if some parts of it are applied literally to our situation membership. needed in our churches to respond appropriately to today the Bible appears to offer to the Palestinians slavery Our Peace Partners: the Christian call to live “in truth” and to be peace- rather than freedom, injustice rather than justice, and • American Friends Service Committee makers. Friends of Sabeel—North America works to death to their national and political life.” • American Jews for a Just Peace help American Christians and their church leaders “The concept of God as inclusive in character and just in • Christian Peacemaker Teams, Hebron do just that—by bringing the voice of the Palestinian all ways becomes clearer when one considers the recipients • Churches for Middle East Peace Christians to them. of God’s justice. Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures and the • Episcopal Peace Fellowship New Testament, God shows special concern for the under- • Institute on Christian Zionism
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