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  WoP Events Actions   Dear Sabeel supporter,    Pentecost takes place 50 days after Easter and marks the birth of the Church. In the Book of Acts, Jesus’s followers were gathered in a house in Jerusalem when a rushing wind came down from heaven and tongues of fire rested upon each of them. Filled with… Continue reading Sabeel

Bloc breaks its lengthy deadlock on the issue but falls short of imposing full-scale trade sanctions Too little too late – Peter The EU has agreed sanctions on violent Israeli settlers, ending a years-long deadlock over the issue but still taking only a “baby step” according to one MEP. Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy… Continue reading EU announces sanctions against violent Israeli settlers

Australia Palestine Advocacy Network says criticism of Israel is routinely misrepresented as antisemitic – and that Palestinian voices are being excluded from debate Palestinians have never really had a voice – Israel has spent billions ensuring this – Peter Palestinian voices are being excluded from the debate on social cohesion, the peak body for Palestinians… Continue reading Palestinian peak body refused leave to appear at royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion

“This represents an unprecedented pace and scale of expansion,” said Amir Daoud of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission.DEIR AMMAR, Occupied West Bank—Mustafa Badaha drove along the edge of his land, past rows of olive trees he could no longer access. A red string put up by Israeli settlers demarcated the border of what was… Continue reading Palestinians Lose More Land After Israel Secretly Approves a Record Number of Settlements in the West Bank

y Jonathan Kuttab May 15 is commemorated in Israel as Independence Day, marking the creation of the Jewish state of Israel. Palestinians, however, mark it as the day of their Nakba (“Catastrophe”). The two concepts are closely, intractably linked: the creation of the state of Israel would have been impossible to accomplish without the Nakba.… Continue reading Nakba Day 78

Dear Friends and Supporters, On Wednesday 27 May 2026, 6:00pm AEST, join Palestinian Christians in Australia,  Aotearoa Christians for Peace in Palestine in partnership with the Pacific Conference of Churches for a powerful live Webinar with Dr. Brian Dunn, church historian and lecturer at Pasifika Communities University (PCU) in Fiji, as he examines the history of Christian Zionism parallel… Continue reading Live Webinar: Interrogating Colonial Narratives in the Pacific

Julian Borgerin Jerusalem Israeli PM says he has ‘full coordination’ with US president amid reports that Washington no longer consults him Benjamin Netanyahu interrupted an uncharacteristically long silence over the Iran conflict this week with a video commentary insisting he had “full coordination” with Donald Trump, with whom he spoke “almost daily”. The insistence that… Continue reading ‘They have screwed each other pretty badly’: tensions emerge in Netanyahu-Trump alliance

by Jonathan Kuttab “And the Light is the test by which people are guilty or not. People love darkness more than the Light because the things they do are sinful” (John 3:19). In 1993, the UN General Assembly declared May 3 as World Press Freedom Day, celebrating journalists internationally as agents of freedom and light… Continue reading Journalists as Agents of Light

Last week, Layan Nasir was released from Damon prison in Israel and was reunited with her family and friends in Birzeit after serving a 7-and-a-half-month sentence. 25-year old Layan Nasir, a member of St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Birzeit, was first violently kidnapped and detained in 2021 for months under Israel’s administrative detention policy, which allows military authorities to hold Palestinians for an indefinite amount of time without charge… Continue reading Wave of Prayer

Last week, the Palestine marathon was held for the first time in three years in Bethlehem and Gaza. The Palestine marathon is an annual event for many Palestinians locally and around the world, and participants run to tell a different story about Palestine as well as the effect of Israel’s Occupation on Palestinians’ freedom of movement. This year’s marathon was centered on hope. In Gaza, 2,523 people, including 15… Continue reading Wave of Prayer