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Beit Ibrahim: A Bridge for Peace in Palestine -P2/2 (In Arabic)
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Today’s
Enlightening Entertainment
will be presented
in Arabic and English,
with subtitles in Arabic,
Aulacese (Vietnamese),
Chinese, English,
French, German,
Hungarian, Indonesian,
Japanese, Korean,
Malay, Persian,
Portuguese, Russian,
Thai and Spanish.
Welcome, splendid viewers,
to today’s Enlightening
Entertainment.
Reverend
Jadallah M. Shihadeh is
the Pastor of the Lutheran
Reformation Church
in Beit Jala,
a small Palestinian town
situated approximately
12 km south of Jerusalem.
He has a dream for
all the people of Palestine.
Our message of peace,
it’s a message of life.
We want to live
in freedom and in dignity.
I am a Christian but
I want to live in peace
with Jews and with Muslims.
There is no difference
between the people.
We want to live in dignity
and democracy.
And my hope
for all the nations
in the whole world
[is] to understand
that we need each other.
That means I hope
someday we know that
we are a human being.
Reverend Axel Becker is
a retired Lutheran pastor
from Germany
who frequently sojourns
in Palestine.
He shares
Reverend Shihadeh’s
dream of peace
in Palestine.
At times,
Palestine reminds him of
the process to harmony
in his own country,
symbolized by the removal
of the Berlin wall.
It was a totally
non-violent process.
This is what we hope here
and I think all the people
which is engaged
in the Peace Week,
they hope that it will be
a non-violent process,
but an effective process,
that these things
have to end.
Peace Week is
a non-violent,
non-political movement
with the sole purpose
of bringing together
the children of Abraham.
It was begun
by the two reverends
and their organization,
Beit Ibrahim,
also known as
the Abraham’s Herberge.
As part of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of the
Reformation compound,
Beit Ibrahim is a large
church-sponsored
peace project
in the Middle East.
Both people can
live together in respect,
because this is the idea
of Abraham’s Herberge,
(That’s right.)
that only if both people
are living together
in respect, then they can
live in security and
in a healthy way.
Father Axel Becker
speaks about some of
Beit Ibrahim’s activities.
We meet every week
on Monday
and pray together
to have a message
of a non-violent future.
Or another example,
during our Peace Week,
we are organizing
a football match.
Muslims and Christians
are playing together.
We decided to finance
the summer camps
in Bethlehem area
for the children
of the refugee camps.
Some churches,
from outside,
“Why are you doing this?
Why you don’t do this
for your children,
the Christian children?”
And I told him, You have
the Christian children
all the time by you,
you could help
whenever you want.
But these children
from the refugee camp
are children
that are in need,
and we have to help them
to get a better life.
Reverend Shihadeh’s
assistant is
a Muslim young man
named Muhammad.
Muhammad grew up
at Beit Ibrahim’s
Boys’ Home
for youngsters in need.
Reverend Shihadeh is
indeed Muhammad’s
close mentor and friend.
Together, they are
a living example of
a peaceful relationship
among Palestinians
of different backgrounds.
We don’t say this:
“You are Christian
and you are Muslim.”
No. We say,
“We are brothers.”
I mean this is
the example really here,
to learn
like a Palestinians,
not we are Christians
or Muslims –
just we are Palestinian.
He is a young man
whom I trust, and I want to
give him the opportunity.
Through him,
we have the contact
to the Muslims, and
the Muslims lost their fear
to enter the church,
because they know that is
my secretary is a Muslim.
I mean,
you have to do something,
against your fears.
You have to
invite the people,
don’t say he is a Jew,
or he is a Muslim,
or that he is a Christian,
try to find ways
how to live together.
And Muhammad
opened us doors to
the world of the Muslims.
It’s an example.
And we called him jokingly
the Lutheran Muslim.
And I’m working here,
so I like this, please.
And the Muslims
in our church, they have
their Ramadan fasting, and
they invite me sometimes,
(That’s right.)
but under one condition.
He said always,
“You have to fast… ( Yes.)
The whole day.
It’s one condition,
we invite you to be now
a Muslim Lutheran.
He is a Lutheran Muslim.
Now I am
a Lutheran Muslim,
but he asked me, “Please
come and be with us,
but under one condition,
fast, you have to
fast all the day.”
And (That’s right.)
it’s good for me.
When we return,
we’ll learn more
about Beit Ibrahim’s
recent peace activities
and how the strengths
of the Palestinians are
a foundation for peace.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
Welcome back to
Enlightening Entertainment
and our program
featuring Beit Ibrahim,
an interfaith peace project
in Palestine.
Beit Jala has almost
17,500 inhabitants.
80% are Christians:
Orthodox, Catholic
or Protestant.
The remaining population
is Muslim.
All have been
living in mutually
tolerant co-existence
for many years.
Thy kingdom come
They will be done
Reverend
Jadallah M. Shihadeh,
Pastor of the Lutheran
Reformation Church
in Beit Jala, Palestine,
has firm faith
in the Palestinian people.
It is because harmony
is already in their history,
and in their nature.
We are a nation
among the Arabs who are
thinking democracy,
in a democratic way.
And the Palestinian people
does not like to
educate others peoples.
They have respect.
When people are with us,
they are part of us
and part of our life.
Father Axel Becker also
discusses
his own observations
of the Palestinian people.
The family is
very important.
The families
and to be together
and to help each other.
This is a very big factor
and so I think the families
are more important
than the democratic
institutions sometimes.
So this is very special.
For instance,
the boys’ home here
is important for children
which have
difficult situations.
But if they are relatives
then the family helps.
Generally, I feel it’s
a very... very kind people.
They like to laugh
and they’re very open.
This is my experience.
That’s very positive in
the culture of Palestine.
Nobody has to feel
he is alone.
Also,
if you have a neighbor,
he is a poor man
and he is alone,
all the neighbors visiting,
try to visit him day for day,
they bring him food,
they bring him
something to drink.
They are taking care
for him.
There’s no need to ask them.
Maybe I can add one thing
which I noticed here.
One thing I noticed here,
what I think
maybe it is special here
for the Palestinians,
it’s their interest
for education.
If you see all these young
people here in the schools,
so many schools, and
institutions for education
and the universities.
This people is
a very educated people
and I think many doctors
and many really
very intelligent people
are coming from
these Palestinians.
In 2009,
the Children of Abraham
from the youth housing
of Beit Ibrahim, together
with other members
of the church, initiated
a Peace Week movement
to strengthen the solidarity
of peace workers
in Palestine.
There were
around 2,500 of us.
We started to walk
from here,
then to the wall,
where we stood by the wall
with candles and prayer.
We only had candles
and prayer.
There with many people,
Christians and Jews
and Muslims, we prayed
and asked God that
this wall will disappear
from our country,
not only from our country,
but from our minds
and from our hearts.
We are interested,
to find ways how to
overcome difficulties,
obstacles, hatred, fears,
and to be
like Muhammad said,
bridges of peace.
And therefore we are open.
You can be
an unreligious person,
but you are invited to be
part of this movement.
Because we want to be
like a river,
and we are moving,
and we are welcoming
everybody to be
part of this movement,
but under one condition:
we are
non-violence movement.
The peaceful
demonstration expressed
the heartfelt plea
for peace and tolerance.
Ritual and symbols
can also be useful aids
to create, even innovate,
a harmonious atmosphere.
The Muslim, he has to
give the bread to others.
The Christian
has to give a candle,
Jewish person
has to give a flower.
Each faith would share
a symbol of life, hope,
or friendship.
Until the message of
peace for all is realized,
for Reverends Shihadeh
and Becker,
the dialogues will continue.
My wish is
that these people can live
in freedom and in justice.
Together aside of people
of Israel, the Jews,
which also needs justice
and their freedom,
and this way,
this should happen,
this is my hope.
All the inhabitants
of the world shall recognize
and know the truth:
that we have not been
placed on this Earth
to wage war
and not for hatred
or bloodshed.
We only came
to know Thee.
We need each other
and we can survive
only together.
And if we decide
to live in peace,
it’s enough if we
take care for the Earth,
for our beautiful Earth.
If we could do that,
that means we have the
possibility to live together.
May Heaven bless you,
Reverend Shihadeh,
Reverend Becker,
and Beit Ibrahim
for all you are doing
to bring peace
to the Holy Land
and our world.
We share your dream
of a kinder,
more open-hearted future
among people
of all faiths and cultures,
as befits the children of God.
Joyful viewers,
thank you for joining us
today on Enlightening
Entertainment.
Coming up next is
Words of Wisdom right
after Noteworthy News.
May your life be filled with
Heaven’s grace and love.
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