Most churches today struggle with the concept of a just war. Most Western countries have not had wars in recent decades and thus we have developed a type of pacifist attitude towards any war situation. But how should Christians approach war? This question is especially relevant in light of Israel’s current conflict with Hamas.
The war against the Jews has been waged from the dawn of history and is relentless until this very day as we are now witnessing with the awful and outrageous assault on Israel’s southern villages and towns a year ago.
The Horse Therapy farm helps rebuild children and family’s lives to establish normality and bring comfort to those suffering PTSD during this ongoing war. The staff’s dedication and innovative approach is providing invaluable healing for the current traumatized children as well as building resilience for the future.
On October 31st, the world may be celebrating a corrupt Halloween …but discover the TRUTH behind this historic day in Church history and Australia’s history with Israel.
Near the Gaza border, Kibbutz Urim residents have endured decades of rocket attacks and incendiary balloons. Children in the kibbutz learn to rush to the bomb shelter whenever the siren screams. Fear and trauma causes them to regress emotionally, lose their joy, or develop negative social behaviours.
Every year there is a day that is sacred to Australia and New Zealand. It is when we remember our beloved ANZAC’s. Although the date chosen to commemorate our soldiers was one that ended in major casualties and retreat, the heroism of the Battle for Gallipoli Campaign became legend and continued throughout the First and Second World Wars and beyond.
On the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah last year, the people of Israel awoke to a nightmare. At daybreak on that fateful October 7, red alert sirens sounded across much of the nation, sending millions of Israelis rushing to their bomb shelters as waves of rockets rained down from the skies. Soon it was clear this was no ordinary rocket attack.
Over recent decades, official visitors to Israel felt obliged to make a pilgrimage to Sderot, near Gaza, to view the rusting heaps of Hamas rockets on display behind the town’s police station. Even presidential candidate Barack Obama stood there in 2008, insisting he would never tolerate his daughters living under the constant rocket threat faced by Israelis in the western Negev.
On Monday we will mourn hundreds of mothers and fathers, children and babies, and young people who were brutally tortured and murdered on the last day of Sukkot, a day that should have been one of rejoicing.
Beginning in the evening of the 2nd October, God’s command in Numbers 29:1 will be observed. “In the 7th month on the first day of the month…you shall have a day of blowing (the shofar).
First held in 2012, an annual beauty pageant open to elderly Jewish women in Israel who survived the Holocaust, is sponsored by the charity, Yad Ezer L’Haver, in cooperation with the ICEJ. The contest gives these women a moment to recapture the beauty of their youth, particularly since certain rites of passage were robbed from them as youngsters during World War II.
Never underestimate the power of prayer. As reported in the latest edition of the Word from Jerusalem magazine, an estimated 25,000 Christians from over 170 nations around the globe regularly take part in the daily prayer gatherings.
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