{"id":3797,"date":"2015-12-24T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T18:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T16:56:02","slug":"epalestine-merry-christmas-and-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2015\/12\/epalestine-merry-christmas-and-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Clipboard01-777784-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"323\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Clipboard01-777784-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3798\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Dear friends,<\/p>\n<p>In wishing you all a Merry Christmas, in these troubling times, and a Happy New Year, after yet another one of more death and destruction, I would like to share with you this profound Christmas message from Bethlehem by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/munib.younan\">Bishop Dr. Munib Younan<\/a>, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, President of the Lutheran World Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Before viewing Bishop Munib and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100000600964823\">Reverend Mitri Raheb<\/a>, whom also features in this service, as religious leaders, I view them as friends and colleagues in our struggle for freedom and independence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Christmas message<\/strong><\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eOes0DrFVH0?t=52m30s\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/eOes0DrFVH0?t=52m30s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Prayer Service: Saturday, December 19, 2015<\/p>\n<p>This is from a the ninth annual joint simulcast Christmas service with the people of Bethlehem. Prayers, readings, and hymns alternate between Washington, D.C. (Washington National Cathedral), and Palestine ( The Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church) via the Internet, bringing together people of different lands, languages, and ethnic backgrounds in celebration of the birth of the Prince of Peace.<\/p>\n<p>To view the service from the beginning click <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eOes0DrFVH0\">here<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this list:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n<p>To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b Dear friends, In wishing you all a Merry Christmas, in these troubling times, and a Happy New Year, after yet another one of more death and destruction, I would like to share with you this profound Christmas message from Bethlehem by Bishop Dr. Munib Younan, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[431,500,501,23,502],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-prayer-service","tag-merry-christmas","tag-mitri-raheb","tag-munib-younan"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}