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Jesus Christ Liberator Then And Now Facing The Legacy Of Injustice The 10th International SabeelConference March 7-13, 2017 120 Years marking the First Zionist Conference 100 Years marking the Balfour Declaration 70 Years marking the Partition Plan 50 Years of occupation 30 Years marking the first Intifada 10 Years of PalestinianDivisions 2017, A Year of Jubilee PB 1 Bethlehem Monday March 6th Recommended day of arrivals 2:00 pm Check-in & Registration 6:00 – 9:00 pm Dinner at hotel (3rd floor dining room) Bethlehem Bethlehem Hotel Tuesday, March 7th– Bethlehem 6:00 am Checkpoint experience visit with EAPPI 5:30-9:00 am Breakfast (3rd floor dining room) International Sabeel Conference Sabeel International th 8:00 am Optional sightseeing tours in Bethlehem (Political and Religious) 11:00 am OCHA briefing on the Humanitarian Situation in the West Bank and Gaza. Speaker: Catharine Cook (2nd floor conference room) The 10 12:15 pm Lunch at Bethlehem Hotel 1:30 pm Depart hotel to Church of St. Catherine’s for worship 2:00 pm Opening Worship at Church of St. Catherine’s Sermon: Rev. Naim Ateek 3:00 pm Depart for Bethlehem Hotel 3:15 pm Welcome – Vera Baboun, Mayor of Bethlehem 3:30 pm The Background and Resulting Impact of the Balfour Declaration 1) Mary Grey: The Theological Underpinnings of the Balfour Declaration 2) Peter Shambrook: The Historical and Political Context that Produced the Declaration 3) Leslie Orr: The Practical Steps Necessary to Address Balfour’s Legacy Today 4:30 pm Coffee break 5:00 pm Q&A 5:30 pm The Balfour Declaration 4) Xavier Abu Eid (response): The Possibilities of Political Action at the Level of the PLO/PA 5) Nour Odeh (response): The Political Possibilities at the Level of Civil Society 6:20 pm Q&A 7:00 pm Dinner 8:00 pm Optional Debriefing 2 3 Hebron/Bethlehem Bethlehem Hotel Wednesday, March 8th 6:00 am Checkpoint experience visit with EAPPI 5:30-7:45 am Breakfast 8:00 am Depart for tours covering the Impact of Balfour: • Umm il-Hiran • Tent of Nations / Hebron • Al ‘Arrub Refugee Camp/ Hebron • Duheisha Refugee Camp / Hebron • Khirbet Zakaria / Hebron • Tuqu’ / Hebron 1:00 pm Box lunches Return to Bethlehem Hotel 2:45 pm Reflection (2nd floor conference room) 3:00 pm Islamic Extremism 1) Mustafa Abu Sway: Islam in Palestinian Society – The Concerns of Local Muslims Today Jesus Christ Liberator Then And Now 2) Ghada Karmi: Religion and the Palestine Struggle: The Case of Islam 3) Patriarch Michel Sabbah: Concerns of Palestinian Christians 5:00 pm Coffee break 5:30 pm Q&A 6:00 pm Bo Forsberg: Occupation in a Global Perspective 7:00 pm Dinner 8:00 pm Optional Debriefing 2 3 Jerusalem Bethlehem Hotel Thursday, March 9th 6-7:15 am Breakfast 7:30 am Depart for Jerusalem 9:00 am Visit the Garden of Gethsemane Visit Haram al-Sharif via Lion’s Gate Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib al Tammimi 10:30 am Visit the Church of the Resurrection 1:00 pm Lunch at Notre Dame International Sabeel Conference Sabeel International 2:30 pm Reflection th 2:45-4:00 pm Jewish Extremism 1) Sahar Vardi: The Influence of the Military on Israeli Society The 10 2) Nurit Peled-Elhanan: Israeli Textbooks and Curriculums Contribution to Extremism 3) Adam Keller: A Path Forward – An Israeli Perspective 4-4:30 pm Coffee Break 4:30 pm Q&A 5-5:30 pm A Way Forward – a Palestinian Perspective Estephan Salameh 5:45 pm Bus to Bethlehem 7:00 pm Dinner at the Bethlehem Hotel (2nd floor) 8:00 pm Optional Debriefing 20174 5 Bethlehem focus Groups (Terra Sancta School) The Crown Plaza Hotel Nazareth Friday, March 10th 6-8:00 am Breakfast and check out from Hotel 8:15-11:30 am Bethlehem workshops/focus groups on various topics 12:00 pm Lunch at Terra Sancta 12:45 pm Depart for Nazareth 2:30 pm Check in hotel in Nazareth 3:30 pm Optional sightseeing tours in Nazareth (Political and Religious) 5:30 pm Bus to hotel 6:00 pm Dinner 7:15 pm Ayman Odeh: A Jewish State? 8:15 pm Optional Debriefing Jesus Christ Liberator Then And Now 4 5 Nazareth / Occupied Syrian Golan Heights The Crown Plaza Hotel Nazareth Saturday, March 11th 6-8:00 am Breakfast 8:00 am Bus to Golan Heights 10:00 am Choice of site visits • Church worship with local community • Banias • Al Ghajar • Quneitra Crossing International Sabeel Conference Sabeel International th 12:15 pm Lunch 1:15 pm Majdal Shams • Situation inside Syria The 10 • Political reality in the Golan Heights • Syrian refugees 2:00 pm Bus to Nazareth 4:30 pm Coffee break 4:45 pm Reflection 5:00 pm Andrew Ashdown: Voices from Syria - Perspectives from inside the Country 5:30 pm Christian Extremism 1) Katalina Tahaafe-Williams: Colonial Christianity and Indigenous Societies: Australia and Palestine in Comparison 2) Robert Smith: Comprehending Christian Zionism: Understanding the Movement and its Effect on Palestinian Life 3) Violette Khoury (response): Extremism in the Palestinian Christian Community 6:30 pm Q&A 7:00 pm Dinner 8:00 pm Optional Debriefing 6 7 The Galilee The Crown Plaza Hotel Nazareth Sunday, March 12th Jesus Christ Liberator - Then and Now 6-8:00 am Breakfast 8:00 am Travel to the Sea of Galilee 9:00 am Jesus Christ Liberator (Magdala Church) Agnes Abuom Barbara Dumont Hill Naim Ateek 11:00 am Leave for Church of the Primacy 11:15 am Closing Worship at the Church of the Primacy 12:30 pm Lunch at Mount of Beatitudes 2:30 pm Walk from Capernaum to Tabgha (or return to Nazareth) 4:00 pm Return to Crown Plaza Jesus Christ Liberator Then And Now 6:45 pm Dinner at Hotel 8:00 pm Cultural event in Nazareth Jerusalem Day of departure Monday, March 13th 6-9:00 am Breakfast and Check out of Hotel 10:00 am Travel to Bethlehem (optional drop-off in Jerusalem) 12:00 pm Closing lunch in Bethlehem Transfers to the airport, depending on flight times 6 7 Conference Speakers Xavier Abu Eid – Xavier Abu Eid is a political scientist who was born in Santiago de Chile to a family from Beit Jala, Bethlehem District. Currently he serves as a communications adviser to the PLO – Negotiations Affairs Department in Ramallah, Palestine and is their spokesman to Latin America. Mustafa Abu Sway – Professor Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway is the first holder (2013) of the Integral Chair for the Study of Imam Al-Ghazali’s Work at Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa and at Al-Quds University. He has been Professor of Philosophy and Islamic Studies at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, Palestine since 1996. Prof. Abu Sway earned his BA from Bethlehem University (1984), and MA (1985) and PhD International Sabeel Conference Sabeel International (1993) from and Boston College, USA. He taught at the International Islamic University in Malaysia th (1993-96), and was a visiting Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Wilkes Honors College at Florida Atlantic University (2003-4), as well as a visiting professor of Islamic Studies at Bard College, NY (Fall 2008 and 2010/2011). Prof. Abu Sway is a member of the Hashemite Fund for the Restoration of The 10 Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, and a member of the Islamic Waqf Council in Jerusalem. Agnes Abuom – Dr. Agnes Abuom was elected unanimously by the WCC 10th Assembly on 8 November 2013 to serve as moderator of the WCC Central Committee. She is the first woman and the first African in the position in the history of the World Council of Churches. She has served on the WCC Executive Committee, representing the Anglican Church of Kenya. She is also a development consultant serving both Kenyan and international organizations coordinating social action programs for religious and civil society across Africa. Abuom was the Africa president for the WCC from 1999 to 2006, and is a co-president of the Religions for Peace and the National Council of Churches of Kenya. Her areas of work include economic justice, peace and reconciliation. Andrew Ashdown – Rev. Andrew Ashdown is an Anglican priest who has been visiting the Middle East since 1982, including countless visits and leading groups to Israel /Palestine. He took several groups to Syria prior to the conflict, and has visited Syria six times since April 2014, meeting with hundreds of people from all communities, many of the faith leaders, and internal opposition and government figures. He was most recently in Aleppo just before Christmas as the city was liberated, and visited East and West Aleppo, meeting with many refugees from East Aleppo. Andrew has recently stepped aside from parish ministry to undertake three years fulltime PhD research into Christian-Muslim relations in Syria. Naim Ateek – Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek is co-founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem and the first Palestinian to articulate for the international community a 8 9 Palestinian theology of liberation in Justice and only Justice: A Palestinian Liberation Theology and again in his more recent book, A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation. Rev. Ateek currently serves as Chairperson of the Sabeel Board. Vera Baboun – Vera George Mousa Baboun is a Palestinian politician and the first female mayor of Bethlehem. She has a master›s degree in African-American literature, and prior to her election, was headmistress of the Roman Catholic High School in Beit Sahour and was an English literature lecturer at Bethlehem University, where she was also the dean of student affairs.