
United Christian
Communities
addresses human
rights, minority
rights, and social
justice and economic
justice issues
affecting the
Christian minority
in Palestine and
Israel.
Our principal
programming focus is
on efforts that
support and enhance
Christian voices in
the Holy Land as
they speak to
governmental,
business, civic and
religious leaders.
Our activities
include developing,
through individual
churches, Christian
voices in North
America that support
Christians in the
Holy Land and
providing “spaces”
in Palestine and
Israel where
Christians can speak
freely and openly
with governmental,
civic and religious
leaders.
Our Mission is:
• To help to ensure
a vibrant, living
Christian presence
in the place where
Christianity was
born,
• To encourage those
who have left the
Holy Land to return,
• And in doing so,
to ensure the
political,
educational, social
and economic
equality and civil
rights of minority
peoples in the Holy
Land by encouraging
positive change
through dialogue
with governmental,
civic, business and
religious leaders
and through civic
engagement and
action by citizens
across the
political,
religious, ethnic,
economic and social
spectrum.
Why is our
Mission
important?
1. In an
increasingly
secular world, a
person's
connections with
the Holy Land
and the
Christians
living there can
serve to inspire
reconnections,
and deepening of
connections,
with his or her
faith. Such
connections will
serve as a
tangible
resource to keep
Christianity a
part of, and
even central to,
each person’s
everyday life.
2.If strong, vibrant
Christian
communities
disappear from
the Holy Land
Christianity
will suffer
because not only
will a living
connection with
its heritage be
lost, and the
maintenance and
protection of
its holy sites
be threatened,
but also because
a symbol that
has acted,
however
imperfectly,
through the ages
as a unifying
force amongst
Christians in an
increasingly
fragmented and
fractious world
will disappear.
3.The marvel of
the Holy Land -
and its promise
– lies in the
variety of its
peoples and the
example they
have often
provided, and
can provide, to
the world when
they exercise
their living
faiths side by
side and
demonstrate a
positive
interaction
among
themselves.
4.Historically
though always a
minority in the
Holy Land,
Christian
communities
provide a small
but necessary
buffer between
the dominant
religions and
cultures in the
Holy Land
against the
tendencies that
can, and often
do, destroy
people's
willingness and
ability to live
peacefully
together.
Without
strong,
vibrant living
Christian
communities in
the Holy Land
the dream of
peace,
and maintaining peace, in the Holy Land will be seriously diminished,
to the
detriment of
not only the
region, but
also the
world.
5.The presence
of Christian
populations
and their
active
participation
in civil
society is
critical to
maintaining a
pluralistic
Middle East
and developing
and maintaining tolerant, open, democratic forms of government
that respect
human rights,
including
minority
rights.
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