Lord God, we pray that the people
whose decisions affect life in Palestine and Israel so much would make wise and
loving choices. God, today we thank you for the many organizations making
morally responsible choices about investment and refusing to profit from
companies connected with actions or policies that are illegal according to
international law (e.g. Israeli settlements and military occupation). We
especially lift up the Quaker Friends Fiduciary Corporation and the Mennonite
Central Committee U.S. who have both recently publically refused to invest in
institutions connected with violence against Palestinians. We pray for
continued initiatives of morally responsible choices from around the world.
Lord, in your mercy...
In a similar vein, we thank you
for all organizations bringing awareness to civil rights violations. We especially pray for Bimkom and The Association for Civil Rights in Israel
(ACRI) who petitioned against an unapproved document that is being used to
limit Palestinian rights to build in East Jerusalem and justify demolitions of
East Jerusalem homes. As ACRI aptly stated,
“Palestinian residents face extreme limitations on building and planning, and
suffer from acute shortage of housing, crowded living conditions, and an
across-the-board lack of public spaces and institutions.” God, may these
injustices be exposed so that they may be rooted out from these systems imposed
on Palestinians. Lord, in your mercy...
We pray also with regard to the
Israeli Knesset’s recent one-year extension of the Nationality and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) which began
as a temporary law in 2003 and has now been extended over 10 times. God, would
you bring an end to the indefinite extensions of this discriminatory law that
prevents Palestinian Jerusalemites and Arab Israelis from obtaining
citizenship, or even residency, for spouses from the West Bank or Gaza. Lord,
despite UN condemnation, the Israeli Supreme Court continues to uphold the law,
allowing for grievous division of families. Please show Israel that this law
and other discriminatory practices are destructive to all life in this land.
Lord, in your mercy...
Here at Sabeel, we pray for your
blessing on this Friday evening’s Easter program in Nazareth. We pray also that
the new edition of the Cornerstone, titled “Let Justice Roll...” would reach
many people around the world with important information and theology concerning
the situation in Palestine and Israel. Lord, in your mercy...
We pray for all the
Armenians living here in Jerusalem and all over the world. On this anniversary
of the horrific genocide of the Armenian people, we remember the victims of the
genocide and pray a blessing on their descendants. We pray in hope for a world
in which such violent acts would never be repeated. Lord, in your mercy...
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