Churches are being urged pray this Sunday for peace in the Middle East, in an initiative supported by aid agencies, including Christian Aid, Tearfund, and CAFOD.
“The gravity of the situation demands a united Christian witness for peace, justice, and reconciliation,” a spokesperson for the campaign – which involves Anglican, RC, and Methodist organisations, as well as Quakers – said this week.
In offering our prayers, we are invited to use a prayer by the Archbishop in Jerusalem, the Most Revd Hosam Naoum, which you can find here.
“The war in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine is not some remote conflict that doesn’t concern us. It is an outrage of our generation,” the Bishop of Kingston, Dr Martin Gainsborough, said this week, after making a week-long visit to Israel and Palestine.
Read the full story in the Church Times here.
Picture above: Omar Mukhtar Street, the main street in Gaza City, in February 2025. Picture by Jaber Jehad Badwan – Jaber Jehad Badwan, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=160402196