Pax Christi
invites Catholics to offer
peace prayers for Bethlehem at Christmas
By Judith Sudilovsky
Catholic News Service
JERUSALEM (CNS) — As Christians around the world
prepare to celebrate Christmas, Pax Christi International has joined a
call for prayers for peace to be sent to Bethlehem, West Bank.
In its eighth year, the prayers for Bethlehem project is being carried
out this year by the World Council of Churches and its Palestine Israel
Ecumenical Forum. Among others, it is being supported by Pax Christi International,
the Catholic peace movement.
The project launched at the beginning of Advent, Nov. 30.
“People in Bethlehem greatly appreciate receiving wishes and prayers
from people outside the region, both as personal and spiritual gestures
of comfort and hope on the occasion of Christmas. These messages are one
way of breaking through the isolation they live in,” the council
said in a press statement.
Messages have come from individuals and church congregations throughout
the world, including Argentina, Guatemala, India, South Africa and the
United States.
These wishes and prayers will be printed and handed out as personal messages,
educational materials in school and as interfaith prayers.
Persons wishing to offer Christmas messages and prayers for peace can
e-mail them to the Arab Educational Institute at aei@p-ol.com, before
Dec. 25 for Christians using the Gregorian calendar and before Jan. 7
for those using the Julian calendar.
Messages can be read online at: www.aeicenter.org
and www.paxchristi.net.
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