{"id":1878,"date":"2018-09-26T06:34:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T03:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2019-05-07T21:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T18:15:22","slug":"oct-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/2018\/09\/oct-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Living Stones Pilgrimage Starts October 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>Let the adventures begin!<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_615\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1314-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arrivals at Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new Living Stones Pilgrimage starts October 12th, when 17 &#8220;Pilgrims&#8221; will fly from the USA to Tel Aviv, and walk this hallway in Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv. They will enter a land that&#8217;s holy, historic, welcoming, and challenging, all at once.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Come look over our shoulders: bookmark this page and return\u00a0to it often between now and Oct 25th to see what we&#8217;re doing and read our reflections!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We will visit key biblical sites in and near Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and the Galilee region, and learn why the Holy Land is known as the Fifth Gospel. Follow us as we also meet Pilgrims of Ibillin\u2019s partners in Ibillin, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Ramle, Ramallah, and Zababdeh &#8212; learning about the people and\u00a0\u00a0organizations in Israel and the West Bank who seek a nonviolent path to peace and justice.<\/p>\n<p>Experience Palestinian hospitality through our eyes and writings, including\u00a0a home-stay in Zababdeh, in the upper West Bank.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1456\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1456\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_1019-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_1019-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_1019-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_1019-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. George&#8217;s Melkite Church, Zababdeh, with neighboring mosque in background<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Get to know students and leaders at the Mar Elias Educational Institutions in Ibillin as we meet them.\u00a0Join us from afar as we visit with MEEI founder and peace activist Archbishop Elias Chacour.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the destroyed village of Biram where Fr. Chacour was born and lived until 1948.<\/p>\n<p>We will return\u00a0home equipped to give presentations, so\u00a0do invite us to share with you when we return! But for now, we invite you to\u00a0follow us as this pilgrimage unfolds.\u00a0We will be\u00a0sharing\u00a0a story of new friends \u2013 Christians, Muslims, Druze, and Jews \u2013 who live with hope and work for peace despite great challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let the adventures begin! A new Living Stones Pilgrimage starts October 12th, when 17 &#8220;Pilgrims&#8221; will fly from the USA to Tel Aviv, and walk this hallway in Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv. They will enter a land that&#8217;s holy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/2018\/09\/oct-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-october-pilgrimage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}