A prayer for a better future.
Candles are lit by members of the Jewish community in the Chicago area on Oct. 12 to mourn Palestinians and Israelis killed. At the conclusion of the Sunday, Oct. 8, service at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Northwest Washington, the Rev. Canon Michele V. Hagans led our small congregation in prayer for peace and justice in the Holy Land, which had erupted 24 hours earlier.
that the sheer devastation caused by Hamas’s assault on Israel and the Israeli response — and the vast grief, pain, suffering and anger it has produced — are unfathomable. And with Hamas embedded in Gaza, and Israeli forcesLurking in the background is the Islamic Republic of Iran. That authoritarian, theocratic regime is the major financial backer of Hamas and Lebanonbased Hezbollah, both of which share Iran’s goal of Israel’s destruction.
Bunche was given the Nobel for his mediation leading to armistice agreements between the new state of Israel and its four Arab neighbors: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria — thus ending the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
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