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Mitri Raheb

Mitri Raheb is a Palestinian Christian, the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem (which is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land).  On October 7, he spoke at Tantur on “Faith in the Face of Empire.”  Father Raheb is the founder and president of the Diyar Consortium, a group of Lutheran-based, ecumenically-oriented institutions serving the Bethlehem area. He has written Faith in the Face of Empire. The Bible through Palestinian Eyes (Orbis 2014) and The Invention of History: A Century of Interplay between Theology and Politics in Palestine (Bethlehem: Diyar Publisher 2011).