5pm, Tuesday 1st November 2016
Elisabeth Templeton Room, New College,
University of Edinburgh (hosted by Centre for Theology and Public issues)
7.30pm, Tuesday 1 November 2016
Café Camino, St Mary’s RC Cathedral
Little King Street, Edinburgh
The Iona Community is hosting a visit to Britain by Hind Khoury, General Secretary of Kairos Palestine. Hind will speak at two meetings in Edinburgh on Tuesday 1 November. CTPI is glad to welcome her in conversation for an hour at 5 pm that afternoon, and Hind will address a public meeting at 7.30 in Café Camino. Hind’s visit provides opportunities to hear news of the current situation in Israel/Palestine and of the Palestinian people’s struggle for justice.
Hind has served with the United Nations in economic and human development, as Minister of Jerusalem Affairs for the Palestinian National Authority, and as the Palestinian ambassador to France from 2006-2010. Khoury has also served as board member of Sabeel-Jerusalem and is currently on the board of Bethlehem Bible College. Other present day roles are president of the Arab Research Institute in Jerusalem and president of the Bethlehem Rotary Club.
In a recent interview Hind spoke of her commitment to “the very deep, complex, and demanding call to all humanity to work prophetically and courageously for justice, peace, and reconciliation … a daunting task in the face of so much extremism, religious fanaticism, violence, political abuse of religion, corrupt leadership, and consumerism, all of which reduce people in their humanity.”
The Kairos Palestine document of 2009 must be our touchstone, she reminds us, because although “it uses Christian language and theology, its message is universal and seeks to involve good people in building a better and a more just world starting with Palestine, the cradle of our great monotheistic religions.”
And Hind is equally bold in her vision of the Kairos mission: “Our achievement can be multi-levelled: saving the peace in Palestine and Israel as well as those great monotheistic religions from debasement, and redeeming a deformed value system so that we can become more fully human.”
For more information please contact: 0141 429 7281 or email iona.org.uk