Palestine: another desperate cry for help
NOVANEWS
“Beyond urgent… on verge of a catastrophe… last chance to save Christian presence in Holy Land”
By Stuart Littlewood
The National Coalition of Christian Organisations in Palestine (NCCOP) has just issued a final plea for help in the form of an open letter to the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement. It is signed by over 30 organisations in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, and can be read in full here.
The problem is well known to everyone who’s paying attention. The letter recaps for us:
We are still suffering from 100 years of injustice and oppression that were inflicted on the Palestinian people beginning with the unlawful Balfour Declaration, intensified through the Nakba [Arabic for “catastrophe” – the ethnic cleansing and dispossession of Palestinians in ...