Meet the Man From Bethlehem

Today Sheena Orr our trainee minister flies out, along with a number of other ministers and theologians to visit Israel. During this visit Sheena will have an opportunity to reflect on the current political and religious divides in the Holy Land and perhaps bring back a more informed point of view for all of us consider. This year at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Douad Nassar,from Bethlehem was an invited guest. He came representing Christian Palestinians. Have a listen to this ten minute interview he gave me last week. I found this quite a moving interview as I began to realise Douad stands in line with a long line of men and woman from Palestine who have borne witnessed that Jesus is the Messiah. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ1F0P13dAY[/youtube] I have no doubt that all these issues have a certain complexity about them however one cannot but feel a sense of compassion and empathy for Douad and his family. It might be interesting to reflect a little bit more on some of the issues. We'll find ourselves when we do straying into theology, politics and issues of peace and justice. One thing I'm certain of we all have a duty to ensure that extremist where every they are found are not allowed to radicalise and polarise communities. When this happens it is people like Douad and their families who suffer.

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Posted By: The PMs Open Door Diplomacy meeting Christians and   On: 16 Oct 2012   At: 1:21pm

[...] the post I made a couple of years ago highlighting the plight of Douad Nassar see the video below.http://www.italker.org.uk/2011/06/meet-the-man-from-bethlehem/  Share       Uncategorized     Photographs of Mull of [...]

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Posted By: Helmut   On: 6 Jun 2011   At: 5:14pm

Is this the wild back gardens of the Assembly Hall buildings?-

This is a video to keep. I am going to have a look at the website.

What a heroic act of faith. Christian Palestinians, as we say it in German, “sit in between all chairs” - the Muslim majority of Palestinians often taking them for “Christians” - hence on the wrong side… Many Israelis taking them for “Palestinians”, wrong side again… And many people elsewhere not knowing what to think about them, anyway, but most likely putting them into the wrong drawer again….

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