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DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for the third installment of Rebuilding Alliance's 
 'I Care About Peace' Series, with special co-hosts Churches for Middle East 
 Peace.\n\nGuest Speakers include: \n\nAlice Kisiya, a Palestinian Christian 
 journalist, activist, community leader, and founder of the Save Al-Makhrour 
 Initiative and the Al-Makhrour Community Development Foundation. She 
 advocates for the protection of Palestinian land, Christian heritage, 
 cultural identity, and the rights and resilience of local communities. 
 Through journalism, advocacy, and community work, she raises awareness 
 about land protection, human rights, youth and women’s empowerment, 
 agriculture, and the preservation of the historic Christian presence in the 
 Holy Land.\n\nMother Agapia, a nun and teacher who lived in Al-Azarya, just 
 over the Mount of Olives, from 1998 to 2005 where she was appointed 
 administrator of the Convent’s Orthodox Girls School of Bethany. Serving 
 at the School during the Second Intifada, she became intimately connected 
 to the lives and struggles of the local Palestinians, both Christian and 
 Muslim. Due to upheaval with both the political situation and within the 
 Church, she returned to New York in 2008, where her current community, the 
 Convent of Saint Nicholas of Myra, was established in May 2009. Her 
 ministry at the Convent has included organizing youth retreats, maintaining 
 her ties to the Holy Land both by organizing twice yearly pilgrimages, and 
 by inviting young Palestinian Christians to the Convent each summer to take 
 part in social, cultural, and religious activities. \n\nThis event will be 
 co-moderated by Kyle Cristofalo, Senior Director of Advocacy & Government 
 Relations at Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) and Nisreen Malley, 
 Director of Advocacy at Rebuilding Alliance.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/09/02/18888376.php
SUMMARY:"I Care About Peace" Series: Preserving Christian Presence in Birthplace of Jesus
LOCATION:Zoom\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/vbQGUBz0Sq-pH28PFc_CvA#/registration
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/09/02/18888376.php
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