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| LIFE IS HARD BUT WE WANT TO STAY HERE |
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| Monday, 21 April 2008 | |
"We feel in a prison with no roof, but we trust Jesus and remain here for Him". This account was given to the youth of the Mediterranean Agora (in pilgrimage to the Holy Land from 14 April, and coming back today), by Charlie Abu Saada, Melkite Christian, together with Dani, Samer and others, who collaborate with the newspaper directed by him. Charlie is in charge of the project "Juthouruna" ("our roots", in Arabian), from which at least three interesting entities were born: the newspaper with the same name, the only one in Arabian in the Holy Land, directed by young Christians; the site www.juthouruna.com, which may be consulted in various languages including Italian; and a programme on Radio Mawal, weekly involving young people in recounting the life and the culture of the Christians in the Middle East. The Italians, accompanied by Sister Stefana Bral from the John Paul II Centre of Loreto and Father Alessandro Amapani, vice director of the Youth Pastoral National Office of CEI, brought Charlie and his community a letter from the archbishop of Loreto, Msgr. Giovanni Tonucci, in which the religious expressed his hope that the "young people coming from Bethlehem" may participate in the next meeting of Mediterranean Agora, taking place in Loreto from 1st to 8th September, for "they may enrich us with their accounts of life and faith".
"What we are trying to do - stated Charlie and the others - is to approach our youth to try and make them stay here". Life in Bethlehem has become much more difficult, both for Christians and Muslims, after the construction of the wall around the town in 2003. All the people who want to go to Jerusalem, which is just ten kilometres away but is in the Israeli land, must have special permits, and are forced to go through the checks of the roadblocks, "which create pressure - they added - even a psychological pressure, a tremendous one: we can bear much, but how shall we explain children all this?" Economic and social difficulties encouraged the Christian communities in Bethlehem to collaborate to a higher extent, "but - they said - we are nevertheless few". "For this reason - they concluded - tell the people about us, tell them there is a small community of Christian Arabs preserving their faith and trying to resist in the Holy Land". News by SIR |
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