Advent and Christmas
The Christmas Community
When I recently asked a friend from Aleppo what Christmas was like before the crisis, these are the...
Read MoreChristmas Greetings from the Orthodox Initiative
In addition to the abundant joy of this season, we invite you to explore our recent work,...
Read MoreCelebrating Advent in Uduvil, Sri Lanka
A short video created by Julianna Nitz featuring members of the local...
Read MoreThe Christmas Card Project
I was feeling the weight of our 127 year relationship with churches in northeastern Japan as...
Read MoreSabeel’s 2013 Christmas Message
“In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by...
Read MoreAdvent Reflections on Presence
"The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means...
Read MoreChristmas in Armenia
Why do Armenians celebrate Christmas on January 6? Armenians do not celebrate Christmas on December...
Read MoreKairos Palestine Christmas alert
Dear Sisters and Brothers, Please accept our best wishes and regards from Bethlehem! With this...
Read MoreAdvent Reflection 3: Miryam’s Magnificat
Dietrich Bonhoeffer says that the Song of Mary is the oldest Advent hymn. “It is at once the most...
Read MoreARIJ Christmas message: Resuscitating the Palestinian Economy
A YouTube video on the Palestinian economy and the impact of occupation The Applied Research...
Read MoreChristmas in the Fifties with a Palestinian Christian Refugee Family
A reflective article from a partner I recall Christmas in the early fifties of the last century...
Read MoreThe “Thorn” of Advent – Waiting!
Waiting. In Lesotho there are many opportunities for doing a lot of waiting. One of them occurs at...
Read MoreAdvent Reflection 2: The Visitation or The Meeting of the Mothers of Redemption
The Gospel story from Luke reminds us that for us to live into God’s promise we must live in a...
Read MoreAdvent Reflection 1: Annunciation
Miryam of Nazareth, a small town in southern Galilee, came from a place where the majority of...
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