A week of prayer in Jerusalem
£14.99
“A Week of Prayer in Jerusalem” leads the reader to all the services the churches in Jerusalem put on for Christian Unity Week, and describes the Christian pilgrim sites, the Muslim and Jewish quarters, the Israel Museum and Bethlehem. The reader also meets ordinary people on the street. Appendices at the back reflect on the tangled historical and political situation. The book is profusely illustrated with colour photos.
In January 2017 Andy Roland made his third visit to the Week of Prayer of Christian Unity in Jerusalem. He takes the reader with him in words and photos, walking through Jerusalem and to each of the evening services.
Each day has its own theme: Holy Sepulchre, the Christian pilgrim sites; the Muslim and Jewish Quarters, the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv and Bethlehem. Andy Roland gives fascinating background facts about all these places.
The reader meets some ordinary Jerusalemites, such as a Muslim cobbler, an Armenian money-changer, a Jewish taxi driver, a Palestinian Christian lady of 90, a German human rights worker and two Israeli soldiers.
Every day the author encountered some of the tangled political issues that infect the land, which he recounts with the aid of his past visits to Israel. When leaving, he found in the airport eleven wall panels giving the Zionist narrative of Israel; he reproduces this in the book together with some comments and uncomfortable facts.
As he says in his conclusion: Jerusalem is fascinating, energising, exhausting and deplorable but never dull!
The book is profusely illustrated with colour photos taken by the author.
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