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CHRISTMAS APPEAL
Help make peace a reality for children in the land where Jesus was born.
Violence, hunger and fear are daily realities for children and families in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and across the Middle East.
embraceme.org/christmas-ap...
Help make peace a reality for children in the land where Jesus was born.
Violence, hunger and fear are daily realities for children and families in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and across the Middle East.
embraceme.org/christmas-ap...
Do you use the best selling #BethlehemCarolSheet?
Which edition do you have??
Which edition do you have??
December 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Do you use the best selling #BethlehemCarolSheet?
Which edition do you have??
Which edition do you have??
Our Advent reflections on the theme of Building the Kingdom of the Prince of Peace continue.
This week's which is introduced by the Dean of the Community of the Cross of Nails:
youtu.be/B1kHh4cFvxA
This week's which is introduced by the Dean of the Community of the Cross of Nails:
youtu.be/B1kHh4cFvxA
Advent Vigil 2025 week 3 - Building a Culture of Justice
YouTube video by Embrace the Middle East
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December 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Our Advent reflections on the theme of Building the Kingdom of the Prince of Peace continue.
This week's which is introduced by the Dean of the Community of the Cross of Nails:
youtu.be/B1kHh4cFvxA
This week's which is introduced by the Dean of the Community of the Cross of Nails:
youtu.be/B1kHh4cFvxA
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Read our latest Meet the Maker ✨ - self-taught Palestinian visual artist Shatha Safi uses her artwork, inspired by Palestinian history and heritage, as a powerful yet peaceful resistance against occupation.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Read our latest Meet the Maker ✨ - self-taught Palestinian visual artist Shatha Safi uses her artwork, inspired by Palestinian history and heritage, as a powerful yet peaceful resistance against occupation.
shop.embraceme.org/blog/meet-th...
shop.embraceme.org/blog/meet-th...
It's #Advent and we have weekly Advent Vigils - you can sign up or watch them online here: embraceme.org/prayer-room-1
Pray with Embrace — Embrace the Middle East
This is a place where we can come together as Christians to support one another in prayer. Here, you will find weekly prayers and reflections and can download our Prayer Diary.
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December 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It's #Advent and we have weekly Advent Vigils - you can sign up or watch them online here: embraceme.org/prayer-room-1
CHRISTMAS APPEAL
Help make peace a reality for children in the land where Jesus was born.
Violence, hunger and fear are daily realities for children and families in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and across the Middle East.
embraceme.org/christmas-ap...
Help make peace a reality for children in the land where Jesus was born.
Violence, hunger and fear are daily realities for children and families in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and across the Middle East.
embraceme.org/christmas-ap...
Christmas appeal — Embrace the Middle East
Your gift helps provide food, medicine, education, and trauma care where it’s needed most.
embraceme.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
CHRISTMAS APPEAL
Help make peace a reality for children in the land where Jesus was born.
Violence, hunger and fear are daily realities for children and families in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and across the Middle East.
embraceme.org/christmas-ap...
Help make peace a reality for children in the land where Jesus was born.
Violence, hunger and fear are daily realities for children and families in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and across the Middle East.
embraceme.org/christmas-ap...
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Help
We are 85% of the way to hitting our match funding goal - will you give and see your donation doubled?
Embrace is part of the Reed Foundation's 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge - meaning that any donation you give in the next two days 1/2
Help
We are 85% of the way to hitting our match funding goal - will you give and see your donation doubled?
Embrace is part of the Reed Foundation's 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge - meaning that any donation you give in the next two days 1/2
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Please
Help
We are 85% of the way to hitting our match funding goal - will you give and see your donation doubled?
Embrace is part of the Reed Foundation's 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge - meaning that any donation you give in the next two days 1/2
Help
We are 85% of the way to hitting our match funding goal - will you give and see your donation doubled?
Embrace is part of the Reed Foundation's 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge - meaning that any donation you give in the next two days 1/2
Watch our new video interview of @followembrace.bsky.social CEO Jamie Eyre with Peter Nasir, General Secretary of East Jerusalem YMCA - they talk about The occupation, Olive Trees & Faith in the West Bank...
#WestBank
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#WestBank
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The occupation, olive trees and faith in the West Bank - an interview with Peter Nasir — Embrace the Middle East
Jamie Eyre, CEO of Embrace, speaks with Peter Nasir, General Secretary of East Jerusalem YMCA about the Christian community in the West Bank, the reality of life under occupation and the work of the Y...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Watch our new video interview of @followembrace.bsky.social CEO Jamie Eyre with Peter Nasir, General Secretary of East Jerusalem YMCA - they talk about The occupation, Olive Trees & Faith in the West Bank...
#WestBank
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#WestBank
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“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above"
James 1:17
We're delighted to announce that Embrace is part of the 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge - any donation you give this week will go twice as far! 1/2
James 1:17
We're delighted to announce that Embrace is part of the 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge - any donation you give this week will go twice as far! 1/2
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above"
James 1:17
We're delighted to announce that Embrace is part of the 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge - any donation you give this week will go twice as far! 1/2
James 1:17
We're delighted to announce that Embrace is part of the 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge - any donation you give this week will go twice as far! 1/2
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above"
James 1:17
We're delighted to announce that Embrace is part of the 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge - any donation you give this week will go twice as far! 1/2
James 1:17
We're delighted to announce that Embrace is part of the 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge - any donation you give this week will go twice as far! 1/2
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above"
James 1:17
We're delighted to announce that Embrace is part of the 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge - any donation you give this week will go twice as far! 1/2
James 1:17
We're delighted to announce that Embrace is part of the 2025 Big Give Christmas Challenge - any donation you give this week will go twice as far! 1/2
On #internationaldayofsolidaritywiththepalestinianpeople, and the final day of our 10 days of social action, we are asking you to stand with children who’ve suffered military detention by writing a message on our message wall.
Here is the link: writeamessageofsolidarity.dedicationpage.org/cbb
Here is the link: writeamessageofsolidarity.dedicationpage.org/cbb
Write a Message of Solidarity for Palestinian children and their families
Embrace the Middle East' campaign ‘Childhood Behind Bars’, calls on the UK government to put pressure on Israel to end military child detention in the West Bank, and also address the ro...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
On #internationaldayofsolidaritywiththepalestinianpeople, and the final day of our 10 days of social action, we are asking you to stand with children who’ve suffered military detention by writing a message on our message wall.
Here is the link: writeamessageofsolidarity.dedicationpage.org/cbb
Here is the link: writeamessageofsolidarity.dedicationpage.org/cbb
As our 10 days of social action are almost up: we are urging you to write to your MP and encourage others to do the same.
Your MP has the power to pressure the government to bring about real change for Palestinian children. Pictured are our postcards we are sending to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper.
Your MP has the power to pressure the government to bring about real change for Palestinian children. Pictured are our postcards we are sending to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
As our 10 days of social action are almost up: we are urging you to write to your MP and encourage others to do the same.
Your MP has the power to pressure the government to bring about real change for Palestinian children. Pictured are our postcards we are sending to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper.
Your MP has the power to pressure the government to bring about real change for Palestinian children. Pictured are our postcards we are sending to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper.
DAY 8 of our 10 days of social action, we're asking you to help share eyewitness accounts of the trauma of military detention.
Peter, from the East Jerusalem YMCA, who works directly with children who’ve experienced military detention, had this to say: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNzX...
Peter, from the East Jerusalem YMCA, who works directly with children who’ve experienced military detention, had this to say: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNzX...
The impact of military detention for Palestinian children in the West Bank
YouTube video by Embrace the Middle East
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November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
DAY 8 of our 10 days of social action, we're asking you to help share eyewitness accounts of the trauma of military detention.
Peter, from the East Jerusalem YMCA, who works directly with children who’ve experienced military detention, had this to say: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNzX...
Peter, from the East Jerusalem YMCA, who works directly with children who’ve experienced military detention, had this to say: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNzX...
Unchained Childhood, Give Hope to Children Held Behind Bars
As a new military operation unfolds in the occupied West Bank today, with potential raids, arrests and terrified families in its wake, too many children face yet another day of fear, detention and trauma.
1/3
As a new military operation unfolds in the occupied West Bank today, with potential raids, arrests and terrified families in its wake, too many children face yet another day of fear, detention and trauma.
1/3
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Unchained Childhood, Give Hope to Children Held Behind Bars
As a new military operation unfolds in the occupied West Bank today, with potential raids, arrests and terrified families in its wake, too many children face yet another day of fear, detention and trauma.
1/3
As a new military operation unfolds in the occupied West Bank today, with potential raids, arrests and terrified families in its wake, too many children face yet another day of fear, detention and trauma.
1/3
Today, we're asking people to download and share our Childhood Behind Bars report, which details Israel’s policy of systematic detention of children in the West Bank and lists what the UK government needs to do to act.
Find it here: embraceme.org/cbb-campaign...
Find it here: embraceme.org/cbb-campaign...
CBB campaign news — Embrace the Middle East
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November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Today, we're asking people to download and share our Childhood Behind Bars report, which details Israel’s policy of systematic detention of children in the West Bank and lists what the UK government needs to do to act.
Find it here: embraceme.org/cbb-campaign...
Find it here: embraceme.org/cbb-campaign...
Day 5 of our 10 days of action.
Please think of our partners who work directly with Palestinian children traumatised by military detention.
You can support their work, and the work of our partners across the region, with a donation to our Christmas Appeal.
embraceme.org/christmas-ap...
Please think of our partners who work directly with Palestinian children traumatised by military detention.
You can support their work, and the work of our partners across the region, with a donation to our Christmas Appeal.
embraceme.org/christmas-ap...
Christmas appeal — Embrace the Middle East
Your gift helps provide food, medicine, education, and trauma care where it’s needed most.
embraceme.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Day 5 of our 10 days of action.
Please think of our partners who work directly with Palestinian children traumatised by military detention.
You can support their work, and the work of our partners across the region, with a donation to our Christmas Appeal.
embraceme.org/christmas-ap...
Please think of our partners who work directly with Palestinian children traumatised by military detention.
You can support their work, and the work of our partners across the region, with a donation to our Christmas Appeal.
embraceme.org/christmas-ap...
Last night, Israeli airstrikes on southern Beirut hit close to neighbourhoods where our partners serve and near two of our partners’ centres.
#Lebanon
Read latest update and our prayer for peace here:
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#Lebanon
Read latest update and our prayer for peace here:
embraceme.org/partner-upda...
Embrace partner updates — Embrace the Middle East
The latest news from our partners on the ground in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel and Lebanon
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November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Last night, Israeli airstrikes on southern Beirut hit close to neighbourhoods where our partners serve and near two of our partners’ centres.
#Lebanon
Read latest update and our prayer for peace here:
embraceme.org/partner-upda...
#Lebanon
Read latest update and our prayer for peace here:
embraceme.org/partner-upda...
Day 4 of our #ChildhoodBehindBars social action.
Military detention is just one part of the wider picture of occupation. Here is another aspect of the occupation - watch this video on movement restriction that was released as part of the #StopSettlements campaign:
youtu.be/6XyH97uJF08?...
Military detention is just one part of the wider picture of occupation. Here is another aspect of the occupation - watch this video on movement restriction that was released as part of the #StopSettlements campaign:
youtu.be/6XyH97uJF08?...
Movement restrictions and checkpoints - daily life in the West Bank
YouTube video by Embrace the Middle East
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November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Day 4 of our #ChildhoodBehindBars social action.
Military detention is just one part of the wider picture of occupation. Here is another aspect of the occupation - watch this video on movement restriction that was released as part of the #StopSettlements campaign:
youtu.be/6XyH97uJF08?...
Military detention is just one part of the wider picture of occupation. Here is another aspect of the occupation - watch this video on movement restriction that was released as part of the #StopSettlements campaign:
youtu.be/6XyH97uJF08?...
This Advent, Embrace the Middle East is inviting churches to wake up to hope and wake up to justice with a new set of resources for worship, prayer and preaching - all shaped by our Childhood Behind Bars campaign:
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November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This Advent, Embrace the Middle East is inviting churches to wake up to hope and wake up to justice with a new set of resources for worship, prayer and preaching - all shaped by our Childhood Behind Bars campaign:
embraceme.org/cbb-campaign...
embraceme.org/cbb-campaign...
Find out what happens to children who are arrested in Gaza and the West Bank...
Share our Childhood Behind Bars campaign video, which follows the experience of Navid - no child should have to go through this:
embraceme.org/cbb-campaign...
Share our Childhood Behind Bars campaign video, which follows the experience of Navid - no child should have to go through this:
embraceme.org/cbb-campaign...
CBB campaign news — Embrace the Middle East
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November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Find out what happens to children who are arrested in Gaza and the West Bank...
Share our Childhood Behind Bars campaign video, which follows the experience of Navid - no child should have to go through this:
embraceme.org/cbb-campaign...
Share our Childhood Behind Bars campaign video, which follows the experience of Navid - no child should have to go through this:
embraceme.org/cbb-campaign...
The @followembrace.bsky.social Childhood Behind Bars Campaign is calling on the UK Government to take action on Israel's use of military detention on Palestinian children.
426 MPs have been lobbied so far, we also went to Westminster to brief MPs about the issue. 1/2
426 MPs have been lobbied so far, we also went to Westminster to brief MPs about the issue. 1/2
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The @followembrace.bsky.social Childhood Behind Bars Campaign is calling on the UK Government to take action on Israel's use of military detention on Palestinian children.
426 MPs have been lobbied so far, we also went to Westminster to brief MPs about the issue. 1/2
426 MPs have been lobbied so far, we also went to Westminster to brief MPs about the issue. 1/2
This week at Lambeth Palace, 60+ church leaders came together for a powerful time of truth-telling and reflection on Israel and Palestine.
We shared from our partners, introduced Gracious Dialogue resource, and discussed church engagement, theology and public action.
embraceme.org/news-1/embra...
We shared from our partners, introduced Gracious Dialogue resource, and discussed church engagement, theology and public action.
embraceme.org/news-1/embra...
Embrace welcomes Archbishop of York’s address on Justice and Peace in Israel and Palestine — Embrace the Middle East
We at Embrace the Middle East commend the courageous address given by the Most Reverend Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, on ‘Justice and Peace – Palestine and Israel’. We join and support his ca...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This week at Lambeth Palace, 60+ church leaders came together for a powerful time of truth-telling and reflection on Israel and Palestine.
We shared from our partners, introduced Gracious Dialogue resource, and discussed church engagement, theology and public action.
embraceme.org/news-1/embra...
We shared from our partners, introduced Gracious Dialogue resource, and discussed church engagement, theology and public action.
embraceme.org/news-1/embra...
1/3 We at Embrace the Middle East commend the courageous address given by Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, on ‘Justice and Peace – Palestine and Israel’.
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
1/3 We at Embrace the Middle East commend the courageous address given by Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, on ‘Justice and Peace – Palestine and Israel’.
Be sure to check out our new 'O Night Divine Advent Card' featuring artwork by Shatha Safi: shop.embraceme.org/all-advent/o...
And read the behind the scene blog: shop.embraceme.org/blog/meet-th...
And read the behind the scene blog: shop.embraceme.org/blog/meet-th...
O Night Divine Advent Card
Featuring original artwork by Palestinian visual artist Shatha SafiA fun and unique card to send your Advent greetings to a loved one with 24 mini windows to open through Advent, telling the Christmas...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Be sure to check out our new 'O Night Divine Advent Card' featuring artwork by Shatha Safi: shop.embraceme.org/all-advent/o...
And read the behind the scene blog: shop.embraceme.org/blog/meet-th...
And read the behind the scene blog: shop.embraceme.org/blog/meet-th...
We are delighted to announce that Embrace is joining the Community of the #CrossofNails global network.
You are invited to come to a reception followed by Choral Evensong at Coventry Cathedral on 7 December:
embraceme.org/events/celeb...
You are invited to come to a reception followed by Choral Evensong at Coventry Cathedral on 7 December:
embraceme.org/events/celeb...
Celebration of Embrace joining the Community of the Cross of Nails — Embrace the Middle East
Embrace is joining the Community of the Cross of Nails - a global network committed to reconciliation, peace & justice rooted in Coventry Cathedral’s story of hope after destruction. We are celebr...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
We are delighted to announce that Embrace is joining the Community of the #CrossofNails global network.
You are invited to come to a reception followed by Choral Evensong at Coventry Cathedral on 7 December:
embraceme.org/events/celeb...
You are invited to come to a reception followed by Choral Evensong at Coventry Cathedral on 7 December:
embraceme.org/events/celeb...
Tune in to #PremierChristianRadio today at 11.20 to hear @followembrace.bsky.social partner Peter Nasir from East Jerusalem YMCA talk about life as a Christian in the #WestBank
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November 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Tune in to #PremierChristianRadio today at 11.20 to hear @followembrace.bsky.social partner Peter Nasir from East Jerusalem YMCA talk about life as a Christian in the #WestBank
www.premier.plus/stations/pre...
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