Prayer for Peace in the Holy Land

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict stimulates extremes and terrorism around the world. The bad news seems relentless. It has the potential to create a regional conflagration which would affect the whole world. It has got to be a priority topic of concern and prayer in the Church.

But how can we interest ordinary Christians in it? How can we obtain and keep up to date with reliable and hopefully balanced information?

Having been General Director of the Church of England’s official ministry among Jewish people for seven years and been Rector of a church in the Old City of Jerusalem for part of that time, I have become passionate about justice for both sides and about reconciliation. This website provides practical suggestions on:

• How to interest ordinary Chrisians
• How to understand the conflict and its background
• How to keep up to date with what is going on easily
• How to pray (with suggested prayers), and offers a help-line to clergy and ministers.

Welcome to the blog site. In the main website I aim to be balanced and fair about both the Israelis and the Palestinians (Jewish people and Arabs). I have no delusions of infallibility,and it may be that there are inaccuracies and unintentionally biased comments.

I suppose if I have got the balance right I will upset the hardliners on both sides - Zionist or “Pro-Palestinianist”! So I expect the site to be controversial.

Have a look at the main website and then write to this blog, whether you agree to disagree with me. I welcome comment and, if what I see is a genuine error comes to light, I will gladly make amendments. I have no desire to further biased polarization on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Rather I want to take the needs, pain and fear of both sides seriously and to encourage prayer on that basis.

My position is that God loves the Palestinian and the Israelis equally. So should the rest of us!