Featuring Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and Druze Prayer Leaders from Palestine & Israel:

Sheikh Abed al-Majeed Amarneh, Mufti of Bethlehem

Siham Halabi, Druze Co-Founder of the Abrahamic Reunion

Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, City Shul, Toronto

Deacon Jiries Mansour, Rame, Co-Founder of the Abrahamic Reunion

Yasmin Sub Laban, Jerusalem

Hosted by David Less & Sheikh Ghassan Manasra

*July 29th, 11am EDT, 4pm London, 6pm Israel Time***

Zoom Link

Name: “The Prayer of Light” – Unity Prayer from the Holy Land
Start: 2021-07-29T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-07-29T12:00:00-04:00

In response to this particularly difficult time, the Abrahamic Reunion is drawing together—virtually—those women and men of the Holy Land who have dedicated their lives to creating peace and understanding.

Even when group prayer is virtual, people who pray together have a powerful effect. This is true not only for Israel and Palestine, but throughout the world. Communal prayer and meditation, with a focus on the common good, can create the shift in consciousness that we all seek.

At each Online Unity Prayer for the Holy Land, religious leaders and holy peacemakers in Israel and Palestine will join together on zoom and lead 45 minutes of prayer.

2021 Unity Prayer Schedule:

March 25th – Love
May 27th – Protection
July 29th – Light
September 30th – Giving
November 18th – Forgiveness
December 31st – New Beginning

David Less, AR Board Chairman, and Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, AR International Director, will virtually host on-site Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and Druze prayer leaders as well as one spiritual musician in the Holy Land.

Please join us. The addition of your prayer energy will help build the change we all seek.

Peace, Salaam, Shalom

Bios

Siham Halabi

Siham Halabi is a Druze leader and the Director of the Women’s Program and Adult Education at the Daliat Al Carmel Community Center providing courses in women’s economic empowerment, home management, drivers education, Hebrew and Arabic languages, social activism, and interfaith understanding. She is a Coordinator of the TRUST WIN, a member of the Women’s Parliament and various orgaizations for dialogue and understanding between the cultures, and for the advancement of women and social issues affecting women. She is a Druze spokeswoman representing Druze women in national forums.

Sheikh Abed Al-Majeed Amarneh

Mufti of Bethlehem District of Palestine since 2004. Sheikh Abd-El Majeed earned his Master in Islamic Studies from Alquds University in 2013 and serves as the Mufti of Bethlehem since 2004. He has been an Imam of Al Alqsa Mosque since 1985 and Bethlehem Mosques since 1979. He is known for his work on Islamic-Christian relations from the Muslim perspective as well as his awareness work within the international community on the brotherhood between Muslims and Christians in Palestine. Sheikh Abd El-Majeed has a long history of presenting TV programs on local TV and radio channels on the themes of Islamic Christian Relations as well as women’s rights.

Yasmin Sub Laban

Yasmin practices law in Jerusalem, after getting her degree at Al-Quds University. She is 23 years old, and a member of the Abrahamic Young Peacebuilders in Palestine.

Rabbi Elyse Goldstein

Rabbi Elyse Goldstein is the visionary spiritual leader of The City Shul in Toronto, Canada.

Rabbi Goldstein is known throughout Canada as an outstanding educator. She founded Kolel: The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning in 1991; she was its director and principal teacher for 20 years. Kolel was recognized worldwide as a leading institution in the field of Jewish adult education. In 2005 she was awarded North America’s highest honour for Jewish Education, The Covenant Award For Outstanding Educators.

Deacon Jiries Mansour

Deacon Jiries Mansour is a Christian Arab, deacon in the Greek Catholic Church, and principal of St Anthony’s middle school in the town of Rama (Rame) in the Galilee. Under Jiries’ leadership, a new school has been developed in Rama promoting interfaith tolerance. He has also organized numerous youth interfaith projects and events. Jiries has his doctorate on the role of Christians in peace in the Middle East.

David Less

Abrahamic Reunion US Board Chair

David Less is a global teacher of meditation and interfaith dialog of over forty years. For over a decade he was the Global Dean of the Universal Worship, an organization in over thirty countries,that honors the commonality in all religions and appreciates and respects the differences. He started promoting understanding rather than blame as a path to peace in the Holy Land in 2000 and was one of the founders of the Abrahamic Reunion shortly thereafter. To contact, reach out to [email protected]

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra

Abrahamic Reunion International Director

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra was one of the Abrahamic Reunion’s Co-Coordinators in the Holy Land until moving to the US in 2015, and has been an active contributing Peacemaker with the AR for more than a decade. He is an ordained Sheikh in the Qadiri Sufi Order in the Holy Land, and son of Sheikh Abdel Salaam Manasra – head of the Qadiri Sufi Order in the Holy Land. He is the founder of Anwar-Il-Salaam, the Lights of Peace Center in Nazareth, and is Director, Islamic Cultural Center in Nazareth. Ghassan is an expert and lectures in Islam, Islamic history, Sufism, and contemporary Muslim issues in the Middle East, Europe, and the USA. [email protected]

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“The Prayer of Light” – Unity Prayer from the Holy Land