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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

The best thing Pope Francis could ever do is to make his stand in Bethlehem. He has an opportunity that is unequalled, to say "no" to genocide. He could even go to the West Bank, Beirut, or even Teheran, and say, “Not in our name, not on our watch.”

Please sign the petition and share widely.

https://chng.it/gkvBfY44rq

Let us also support UNRWA. If our governments won’t act in accordance with humanity, then we will. https://www.unrwausa.org/donate

Also we can all support the brave doctors who have gone to Gaza: https://palestinian-ama.networkforgood.com/projects/206145-gaza-medical-supplies-oct-2023

Or

Surgeons to Gaza

https://fajr.org/donate/

Let us make our donations to honor Aaron Bushnell, in memory of Hind Rajab, or Dr Jumann Afra, the mother of newborn twins killed by Israel using US bombs. Now, sorrowfully, we must also add Aysenur Ezgi Egyi and Matt Nelson’s name to our honor roll.

Here’s a petition to excommunicate Joe Biden: https://www.change.org/p/excommunicate-president-joe-biden-bf979783-ac08-4576-a53f-c786ea23dc9c

These are a few small things we can do. If we can do more, let us do more.

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Julie Anne's avatar

In 1999 Grace Halsell, Texan Christian, wrote "Forcing God's hand .. Why millions pray for a quick rapture and destruction of planet earth". Described as "A great expose of the strange marriage of convenience between the US Christian Right and Israel. ... They use one another. It's not about religion but about politics.".

Grace's conclusion after much enquiry and searching was ..."Each of us can then chose to define the character of our Creator, electing to follow a God of war or a God of universal peace and love." Halsell of course chose the God of Love. She is a heroine of mine, and I'm a male-god rejecting atheist, and a woman who believes in male/female equality.

It would be good if the Pope and other prominent religious leaders truly rejected the destruction of Palestine, but I think there's a big split in Christian thinking which has allowed this outrage to happen and it's not being confronted.

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