On Friday 23 February, Sabeel attended an event in Bethlehem to launch the four gospels that have just been handwritten in Aramaic by Father Paul Khanu. A Palestinian Christian priest from the Syrian Orthodox Church, Father Khanu has made it his life ministry to teach and revive Aramaic. Aramaic is the language Jesus spoke, the mother language of Hebrew and Arabic, and a language under threat of extinction. Some Christian communities still use the Aramaic language in villages in Syria. Father Khanu wrote the four gospels in Aramaic over the past two years.