Every Christian has a personal connection to the holy feast of Christmas. We have our family traditions and individual habits which are repeated every single year under different circumstances. For me, the Christmas songs with their messages and unique atmosphere are defining the time of Advent. In a morning these days, I was having a shower and enjoyed listening to …
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A new Arabic edition of “You Have Been There” [In Dutch: Je bent er geweest]
Arie de Bruin en Len Munnik In an occupied territory such as Palestine children are the victim of the power and powerlessness of adults, which is often expressed through violence. Arie de Bruin (poetry) and Len Munnik (drawings) from the Netherlands gave expression to their resistance against the violations of human rights, in particular children’s rights in Palestine. After they …
Christmas Cards from Flanders
At the beginning of November Pax Christi Flanders started an action to ensure that Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem receive a timely Christmas wish: you responded en masse! Thousands of cards were distributed to all corners of Flanders in recent weeks. Young and old wrote a Christmas wish on a pre-printed card. These are now all coming back to our Peace …
About Palestinian flags and the Arab mother as heroine
Blog Toine van Teeffelen Besides the Moroccan squad, winners up until the semi-finals, the main winners of the World Cup are first the Palestinians or Palestine, witnessing the many Palestine flags waved on the field and among the audiences. And secondly, the Arab mother. One after the other the Moroccan players and coach danced with their mothers on the pitch …
Hell broke loose during a pilgrimage event in Hebron
Blog Toine van Teeffelen Ben Gvir, the upcoming Israeli minister of “public security”, is from Kiryat Arba, the large Jewish settlement on walking distance from the center of Hebron. He is a well-known personality associated with followers of the former Meir Kahane who in the final decades of the last century advocated for the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel and …
The Old Woman and the Doctor
The Old Woman and the Doctor He wore his white coat and put on his blue face mask. How much he started to hate this mask needed in the corona period. It became part of his official uniform as a doctor. He breathed deep and went out of the changing room to start treating the infected people. Seventeen days had …