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Download Bible Lands Summer 2019 Edition Bible Lands Summer 2019 Magazine of the Jerusalem and the Middle East Church Association www.jmeca.org.uk & TH M E M LE ID SA DL RU E E EA J S N T I D H I C O R C E U S H E C O L F A J P E O R C U S S I A P L E E M E H T Jerusalem Egypt & North Africa Cyprus & the Gulf Iran Gaza – news from a ‘suffering church’ .................................................. p.6 Awareness Foundation ......................................................................... p.10 New Archdeacon and Dean ................................................................. p.16 Katafiyio Retreat House ........................................................................ p.17 Book Reviews ....................................................................................... p.20 THE JERUSALEM AND Bible Lands Editor Letters, articles, comments are welcomed by the Editor: THE MIDDLE EAST CHURCH The Reverend Dr. Stephen W. Need ASSOCIATION Email: [email protected] The next issue will be published in November for (JMECA) Winter 2019/20. Views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily Founded in 1887 those of the Association; therefore only signed articles ‘To encourage support in prayer, money and will be published. personal service for the religious and other Front cover photo: Restored angel mosaic at the charitable work of the Episcopal church in Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Jerusalem and the Middle East’. JMECA Website www.jmeca.org.uk Reg. Charity no. 1158476 www.jmeca.org.uk The site has information for each of the four Dioceses with links to the websites of each one and regular Patron updates of Middle East news. The Most Reverend and Right Honourable The Archbishop of Canterbury THE CENTRAL SYNOD OF THE PROVINCE Chairman President The Reverend Canon Anthony Ball The Most Revd Suheil Dawani Administrator Secretary Mrs Georgia Katsantonis Mrs. Shirley Eason [email protected] Assistant: Mrs. Shirley Atkins 1 Hart House, The Hart Treasurer The Ven Canon William Schwartz Farnham GU9 7HJ, Surrey. [email protected] Jerusalem Office days: Monday to Friday, 9.30am – 2.00pm. The Most Revd Suheil Dawani Tel/Fax 01252 726994 The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East, P.O. Box 19122, The Council of JMECA delegates the administration 65, Nablus Road, Jerusalem 91191 of its assets to a Standing Committee which is Tel: +972 2 6272932 [email protected] THE JERUSALEM AND THE EAST MISSION TRUST website: www.j-diocese.org LIMITED (JEMT) Administrator as above Iran Vicar General Directors The Revd Dr Albert Walters Mr. John Clark (Chairman) Egypt Dr. Clare Amos The Rt Revd Mouneer Anis Mr. Andrew Hill All Saints Cathedral, PO Box 87, Distribution Zamalek, Mr. John G Pringle (Hon Treasurer) Cairo, Egypt Tel: +20 2 2738 0821 The Reverend Dr. William Taylor [email protected] Mr. David Wright OBE website: www.dioceseofegypt.org The Reverend Canon Hugh Wybrew The Reverend Canon Dr Matthew Rhodes Cyprus and the Gulf The Rt Revd Michael Lewis Consultants Diocesean Office, PO Box 22075, 1517 Nicosia Tel: +357 22671220 The Reverend Dr. Stephen W. Need The Bishop’s PA Mr. Richard Owens OBE Mrs Georgia Katsantonis Sir Harold Walker KCMG [email protected] website: www.cypgulf.org 2 Mr John Clark, chair of the JMECA standing committee, writes: ‘The drums of war are News from Iran is difficult to obtain but in this issue an beating once again’, is article by the Vicar-General, the Revd Dr Albert Walters the opening sentence of brings news of the serious impact of sanctions on ordinary The Economist’s lead editorial for May 11th, referring to an people in Iran, and of the close monitoring of the three American aircraft carrier strike group heading for the Persian small Persian-language congregations. As this editorial Gulf. Just a few days earlier a ceasefire had halted the was being written news came that Dr Walters’ work and latest serious flare up between Israel and the Palestinians residence permits have not been extended and he has had of Gaza, which had led to more than twenty deaths, many to leave the country. Prayers are needed for the church and injured and much destruction. In Syria, government forces the province as they seek to discern the next steps for this had begun their long-expected offensive against Jihadis in isolated community. Idlib, while the situation in northern Iraq remained unsettled Changes to the province? The Standing Committee of the and a tense cease fire was in operation in Yemen’s civil war. Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) met at the end of April The Middle East remains a focal point for inter-communal, and received a request from the province that the Diocese intra-regional and international conflict. The Bishop of of Egypt, North Africa and the Horn of Africa become a Truro’s Commission on the Persecution of Christians in separate, independent province. The Diocese of Jerusalem its Interim Report highlighted the impact on the Christian is also seeking special status due to ‘its historical position communities of the region with significant decline in as Mother Church of our Christian Faith’. The situation for the Christian population and widespread experience of the Dioceses of Cyprus and the Gulf and Iran is unclear. discrimination and persecution. The ACC has set up an exploration committee to look into The role of JMECA is to support the presence and witness the circumstances of this request as part of the Council’s of Anglican Christians caught up in this conflicted region. guidelines for recognising new provinces and asked for a Our Editor has drawn together articles which speak of the report as soon as possible. That Committee has to consider resilience of that presence and its significant outreach in the situation of those dioceses that remain should a new these various countries of conflict. The newly appointed province be formed. Chaplain to Archbishop Suheil brings news from the These developments have taken place while this Bible Diocese of Jerusalem. And John Angle writes about the Lands has been under preparation. We look forward to tiny but important presence of Christians in Gaza. His receiving further information from the province of how plans article is followed by the appeal for rebuilding part of the develop and would hope to share them in the next issue. Episcopal Al-Ahli Hospital. Should any changes to the province take place, they will Fr Nadim Nassar, the one Syrian Anglican priest, founded have implications for JMECA, which was developed from the Awareness Foundation in 2003. The Operations Director The Jerusalem and the East Mission in 1976 to support the writes here about its ministry in Syria and Iraq and Fr (then) newly formed province and has developed relations Nadim’s recent book is reviewed on page 21. There are and support for the four dioceses. encouraging developments in the Diocese of Egypt which are spelt out in varied news items. As we pray for all Christians and peoples of the Middle East (do use Praying Around the Province on pages 22 & There was a lively Cyprus and the Gulf Diocesan Synod 23), let us in particular hold the leadership of the province as David Hammond-Williams reports with news from the in our prayers as they look to the future and meet together varied and large chaplaincies on the Arab side of the Gulf. in the Central Synod at the end of June. From Cyprus itself we have a feature about the Katafyio Retreat House – one of the centres for spiritual renewal in John Clark the province. We also report on changes of Archdeacons Chair: JMECA Standing Committee and other senior clergy in the diocese. 3 Diocese of Jerusalem www.j-diocese.org Jerusalem The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, a diocese of the worldwide Anglican Communion, extends over five countries, including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Israel, within the Province of Jerusalem and the Archbishop Suheil Dawani Suheil Dawani Archbishop Middle East. There are 27 parishes that minister to the needs of their communities, centered on the Cathedral Church of St. George the Martyr, Syria Lebanon in Jerusalem. The diocese supports 35 institutions, which include hospitals, clinics, kindergartens and schools, vocational training programmes, as Palestine well as institutions for the deaf, the & Israel disabled and the elderly, reaching out to Jordan interfaith neighbours in mutual respect and cooperation. The Revd Canon Donald D. Binder PhD, Chaplain to the Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, sends news from the diocese When I first came to Jerusalem in 1988 as a young seminarian pilgrimage groups from my Northern Virginia parish on a month-long study course to St. George’s College, the emphasis was always on at St. George’s College, I was following in the ancient footsteps of Jesus. asked by one of my professors at Virginia Theological To be sure, out of gratitude for the spiritual inspiration Seminary to bring his those pilgrimages provided to our parish, we sent greetings to a former student some small support to the ministries of the Diocese of his who was serving as a of Jerusalem through the Episcopal Church’s annual priest in Haifa. The name of the priest, he told me, Good Friday Offering. Nevertheless, it wasn’t until my was Fr. Suheil Dawani. Halfway through the college wife and I arrived in Jerusalem last October that we programme, the two of us ran into each other in front began to understand the incredible extent of those of the diocesan office. We met and spoke there for ministries. Many dioceses in my home province about five minutes, during which I conveyed to him might have one or two institutions that they run or the good wishes of our mutual mentor. At the time, indirectly oversee.
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