By Julia Fisher
Published Feb 19, 2016
The Body of Christ, which includes both Jews and non-Jews (Palestinians/ Arabs) is developing in the Holy Land today despite the politics and conflict that divide these two peoples. Reconciliation is at the heart of each story, though reconciliation in the context of the Middle East is fraught with danger and seemingly impossible challenges. Yet even in the midst of the current conflict it is possible. Here are fourteen separate interviews, demonstrating how, despite the tensions and the dreadful headlines, the faith is growing. Interviewees include expatriate Jews, children of Holocaust survivors, believers from Muslim backgrounds, a former drug addict, a pastor in Bethlehem, and an Egyptian setting up an underground church in Gaza.