Wave of Prayers

13th of March 2025 Israeli occupation forces continue their military operations in the West Bank, carrying out mass arrests and demolishing homes. Meanwhile, extremist settlers persist in their violent actions […]

March 6th, 2025 This week, the Lenten season begins for all Christians in the Holy Land. March 3rd marks Clean Monday in Orthodox traditions, while March 5th marks Ash Wednesday […]

Feb 27th, 2025 The Gospel reading for next week, according to the Common Lectionary, is Luke 9:28-36, [37-43a]. Sabeel holds a weekly online service each Thursday to reflect on and […]

Feb 20th, 2025 The gospel reading for the upcoming Sunday, to be reflected on at Sabeel’s online Thursday service at 6 PM Palestine time, is Luke 6:27-38.   Christ the Liberator, […]

Feb 13th, 2025 Every Thursday at 6 PM Jerusalem time, Sabeel gathers our friends from around the world for our weekly online service. Led by Rev. Naim Ateek, the service […]

Feb 6th 2025 Every Thursday, Sabeel gathers our friends from around the world for our weekly online service. Led by Rev. Naim Ateek, the service includes the Wave of Prayer, […]

Jan 30th, 2025 Israel began the “Iron Wall” operation on Jenin Refugee Camp. Already, dozens of Palestinians have been killed including children and women.   God, we are shaken by […]

Jan 23rd, 2025 Armenians around the world are celebrating Christmas this week, coinciding with the time when many Christians are celebrating Epiphany. Loving God, we pray for peace and justice […]

Jan 16th, 2025 Sabeel is hosting two international delegations this month and is anticipating 1-2 delegations each month for the coming year. The delegations to be planned are comprised of […]

This week, instead of a normal Kumi Now Session, we begin our 2025 program with an invitation to complete a feedback survey on Kumi. The feedback of our friends around […]

Dec 2nd, 2025 For the second year, Sabeel partnered with local organizations to develop a play titled Emanuel. The play explores the reality of life in Gaza during the Christmas season, […]

Dec 26th, 2024 To mark the 15th anniversary of the Kairos Palestine Document, Kairos Palestine released a “Call to our Palestinian people for Collective Actions, Steadfastness, Resilience, and Hope in […]

Dec 19th, 2024 The Israeli occupation continues committing massacres every single day in Gaza and bombing supposed “safe zones.” Just last Thursday, the Israeli occupation committed three horrific massacres, the […]

December 12th 2024  Israel continues to kill and starve civilians in Gaza. Among the casualties during Israel’s attacks last week in North Gaza was Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun, a beloved Palestinian […]

WOP Dec 2-6 Palestinian detainees are facing alarming conditions in Israeli prisons. Recent visitations to the al-Naqab and Megiddo prisons by The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs revealed that […]

WOP Nov 25-29 Last week, the United States vetoed yet another U.N. Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza and release of all hostages, being the only member of […]

November 21, 2024 A recent UN report released this month found that 70% of those killed in the ongoing war in Gaza are women and children. Overall, 44% of the […]

Nov 11-15  Last week, amid U.S. presidential elections, Israel officially confirmed that Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, an area that still has hundreds […]

Nov 7th, 2024 Last week, Israel’s parliament voted to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). UNRWA has for decades provided important services for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, […]

32 of October Last week, the Israeli army published the names of six Al Jazeera journalists, claiming they were Hamas operatives. The six journalists accused by Israel are the only […]

October 24th 2024 Last week, Israel reported that it had killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar via a drone. Israel’s leaders have vowed to continue the war on Gaza with no end […]

Sabeel Wave of PrayerOctober 17th 2024 Last week, Israeli forces ordered the evacuation of patients from Kamal Adwan, Indonesian, and al-Awda hospitals in a renewed ground invasion into North Gaza. […]

10-20-2024 This week marks one year of unprecedented violence across the region, with the number of casualties reaching record highs. Human rights continue to be violated, international law is disregarded, […]

3-10-2024 Last week, Israel launched indiscriminate assaults on Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of at least 550 people and thousands more injured. Among the dead is Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan […]

26-9-2024 Last week, in two mass terrorizing attacks, over 4,000 people were injured and 20 people killed in Lebanon by hacking and exploding pagers and electronic devices manufactured by Motorola. […]

19-9-2024 Last week, in the early hours of dawn, Israel dropped at least 4 U.S. made 2000-lb bombs on 20 tents in Al-Mawasi Khan Younis, which was a “designated safe […]

Sep 12nd, 2024 In Israel’s continued invasion of the West Bank, the Israeli military destroyed large segments of civilian infrastructure in the Palestinian cities of Nablus, Jenin, and Tulkarem. As […]

Sep 5th, 2024 Last week, the Israeli military launched its largest-scale military invasion of the West Bank since the Second Intifada in 2002, targeting the Palestinian towns of Jenin, Tulkarem, […]

Aug 29th, 2024 On August 15, 2024, Israeli settlers began constructing an illegal outpost on a section of the Tent of Nations farm, which is owned by the Nassar family. […]

Aug 22nd, 2024 Last week, during the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’av, settlers stormed the Palestinian village of Tuwani with the protection of the army so that they could pray […]