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  • 22 Jun 2007
    Occupation harms Israelis too, says church leader

    Doing justice to the Palestinian people will bring about security for Israel too, a global church conference has heard. There were appeals to end the illegal occupation of Palestinian land and to combat anti-Semitism too.

  • 19 Jun 2007
    WCC head to visit churches and leaders in Israel and Palestine

    The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, plans to visit member churches and Christian communities in the strife-ridden occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.

  • 16 Jun 2007
    Gaza violence worsens isolation and injustice

    Fighting between the Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip has highlighted the urgent need for the international community to end the isolation and blockade on the Palestinian government, say churches and NGOs.

  • 3 May 2007
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  • 17 Apr 2007
    Archbishop of York to hold vigil for missing BBC journalist

    The Archbishop of York is to hold a prayer vigil today (Tuesday) for BBC journalist Alan Johnston, missing in Gaza. Christians and others are also remembering the many other captives in Iraq and Israel.

  • 3 Apr 2007
    Relief offered to northern Gaza village hit by sewage disaster

    Israel’s prolonged closure of Palestinian borders has prevented the entry of spare parts and materials as a relief operation continues in Gaza, says Christian Aid.

  • 4 Jan 2007
    Caritas remains concerned about health crisis in Palestine

    As tension and violence continues to escalate in Gaza, Caritas Jerusalem, the Catholic aid agency, continues to be alarmed at the ongoing deterioration of the health situation in the Palestinian Territories - and involved in practical work to redress the situation.

  • 13 Dec 2006
    Archbishop Tutu laments Israeli block on his fact-finding mission

    South African Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says it is distressing that Israel blocked a planned mission by him and British professor Christine Chinkin to investigate the killing of 19 Palestinian civilians by Israeli shells - writes Peter Kenny for Ecumenical News International.

  • 6 Dec 2006
    Gaza has become a prison, say church and human rights groups

    Renewed violence in the Gaza Strip has exacerbated the humanitarian situation in a territory Palestinians call the "world's largest prison", say church and human rights organizations - writes Chris Herlinger for Ecumenical News International from Gaza City.