by Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb There is a church on the Mount of Olives called “Dominus Flevit,” a Latin word meaning “the Lord cries.” Jesus was expecting the destruction of Jerusalem [...]
As we begin the season of Lent, we welcome Dr. Suzanne Watts Henderson as guest contributor to the “Peace Doers” blog. Dr. Henderson is an Associate Professor of Religion at Queens [...]
In late October, at the Olive Harvest Festival on Manger Square in Bethlehem, people were already looking forward to Christmas in Bethlehem this year. The number of visitors to Bethlehem has been [...]
We hope you have appreciated reading our blog “Peace Doers…building a future for Palestine”. As we wrote in our first post in December 2016, The name of this blog is borrowed from a quote by [...]
This week the Peace Doers blog is honored to have Nora Arsenian Carmi as guest writer on the topic of “What Palestinians Want”. Nora Arsenian-Carmi was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, a few [...]
