Ecumenical Accompaniment Program News Today

A special guest will be giving an eye witness account of the West Bank at the Quaker Meeting House on Sunday, April 28. Máire Ní Mheibhric is a human rights…

The head of the World Council of Churches, Rev. Jerry Pillay, is visiting the Holy Land and will meet the president of Israel and the Palestinian president.

Six ecumenical accompaniers have returned to Palestine and Israel, resuming in-person operations for the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel. Ecumenical accompaniers, who were evacuated beginning of October 2023, had been continuing their support and accompaniment online. 

The World Council of Churches has condemned violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex calling on Israel to respect the status quo of holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City in the interest of peace and stability.

John Buttrick volunteered with the World Council of Churches as an ecumenical accompanier in Palestine and Israel in 2010.  He writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home: Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. I have...

From the blog of Tomas Sandell at The Times of Israel

On 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, head of the European Coalition for Israel calls out remaining Church opposition to the Jewish state.

From the blog of Tomas Sandell at The Times of Israel

Why do the EU and European countries support efforts by the PLO and other terrorist organizations to create a state in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem (the West Bank)? Is it because of a theologically based culture of animosity for Jews and the State of Israel? Why do they spend billions to fund anti-Israel NGOs as proxies to demonize and destroy Israel in another Holocaust? The EU might argue that it is a humanitarian issue to support “Palestinian self-determination,” but that means su...