“Understanding & Taking Our Next Steps”
A blog from Sheikh Ghassan Manasra

WE KNOW and we understand all about the situation in the Holy Land, because we have lived there, and worked there, for many years. It’s not an easy situation there. It’s a little bit challenging, a little bit dangerous, and a little bit divided there. We work to try to repair the situation and to bring the people to understand one another, and to know one another again. We will not stand aside because this is our responsibility – all of us in the AR.

We need the time to work together as sisters and brothers, as healers, and as spiritual people, because we understand the situation there, we need to come from the dimension of love to repair the situation.

The people in the Holy Land, especially right now, need lots of quiet, lots of understanding, lots of peace, and lots of time spent knowing one another. These are the things that we can offer, in our multi-faith way, bringing together people and teachings from different religions and nationalities. Because these people can move all of the world by their work, and by their connection together…

Sometimes, a long time can create a kind of blindness that keeps us from seeing our situation, but if we begin to feel and understand one another, we can clean all of this blindness and create a deeper perspective and deeper understanding.

We prepare now for the next steps, and these next steps will be the meeting of the Families Forum, a women’s meeting, a meeting of the youth, and a multi-faith text study in a Monastery — all this month. Also, we are preparing with professors and doctors lectures each month about our situation about our lives and about how to connect from the Holy Land. Every month we are preparing to have multiple events in the Holy Land, until the end of the year.

And also we are preparing very well for another big peace summit, in the Northern Holy Land in December. Soon you’ll hear more in our newsletter about the Peace Summit, and about all our programs.

Salaam alaykum,

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra

Sheikh Ghassan is the AR’s International Director & Representative, traveling between the Holy Land, UK, Germany, and USA.

Sheikh Ghassan’s upcoming schedule: 

• July 29-31: “Sacred Texts & Human Contexts Conference” at Nazareth College, Rochester, NY, USA
• Aug 2 – 18: Holy Land Peacebuilding Trip
• Aug 30 – Sept 9: Germany Peacebuilding Trip
• Oct 5 – 7: Three-Day Peacemaker Training with Sheikh Ghassan, Sarasota, FL
• Oct 31 – Nov 7: Parliament of the World’s Religions, Toronto, Canada
• Nov 7 – 15: North American Speaking Tour
• Nov 28 – Dec 15: UK Peacebuilding Trip

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