STUDY 1 GOOD NEIGHBOURS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

We start our Lent course in the very place that provides the setting and the context for the Parable of the Good Samaritan. The Lenten journey calls us to journey with Christ on the road to Jerusalem.

The Diocese of Jerusalem is part of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, and has churches, parishes, schools, hospitals and programmes in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

In that part of the Middle East, Anglicans are a considerable minority among Christians, and so find themselves working with other Christians and with Jews, Muslims and other communities of faith.