Please Pray For The Christians In Judea and Samaria/West Bank!

“ But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”   And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!  For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”-Jesus, Matthew 12:48-50

Imagine being stuck in the Judea and Samaria/West Bank, as a Christian? Israel does not trust you, because you may be Palestinian and attacks on Israel have come out of that region. Many Muslims in that region want you gone. The war, including the attacks, have struck both the Muslims and Christians. Daily life has become an unbearable burden. The future of your children is something you worry about constantly.

What will the future hold for your children? Will they even be safe? Do they even have a future in the West Bank/Judea and Samaria? After all, it is said that there are less than 50,000 Christians left in all of Palestine. And even if a person wanted to leave, where would they go? And leaving requires a lot of money, many don’t have it.

And since Bethlehem was the birthplace of Christ, many Christians don’t want to leave. So many Christian remain trapped between their desire to stay and the safety and future that leaving would probably provide their families.

The problems of Israel and the Christians that are in the Judea and Samaria/West Bank is not one that we are going to solve. Who did what to whom is also a question we can not solve.

But we can pray. We can pray for their protection and for their pain. We can ask Jesus to walk where we can not, with them each day. For no matter the situation, they are our brothers and sisters in Christ.

Please pray for them!