HOW IS YOUR CONGREGATION PRAYING FOR PALESTINE?
©Wendell Griffen, 2025 Palestinians are being bombed, shot, poisoned, and starved to death by Israel. U.S. media outlets are strangely silent about it. One seldom sees, hears, or reads news coverage about Israel’s aggression against Palestinians. But the most unsettling silence is from U.S. religious congregations. Despite daily news reports from non-U.S. media outlets Palestinians are dying every day from Israeli military actions in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, most U.S. religious bodies are not protesting Israeli aggression. I suspect that they also are not praying about it. They are not praying for the unsheltered, starving, defenseless, and occupation-weary Palestinians in Gaza. They are not praying even though a panel of United Nations experts estimates that 500,000 people are starving in Gaza ( https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/12/famine-stalking-across-gaza-500000-face-starvation-analysis ). They are not praying as men, women, and children are being slaug...