Father Alex Kratz, OFM recently returned from the Holy Land after a fact finding mission lasting several weeks Maria Khoury, Ed. D. lives in Taybeh, a Christian village in Palestine. She has had personal experience navigating the military checkpoints, curfews, bypass roads and the destruction of Palestine's infrastructure.

Rev. Dr. Donald Wagner will discuss the history of Christian Zionism and the effects that this heretical American movement has had on America's support of the war crimes committed in the name of security by Israel.

Rev. Dr. Michael Prior, C.M., will discuss his views on the prospects of peace among the Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land.

Father Drew Christianson, Counselor on International Affairs for the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, Donald Kruse, former U.S. Consul in Jerusalem, George Khoury, HCEF Board Member Father Nicholas Dahdal, Pastor of the St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, and Rateb Y. Rabie, KHS, HCEF President, have had extensive experience in the Holy Land and advocating for Holy Land Christians in the United States.

will provide their insights about what Chicagoans can do to further the cause of preserving Christianity in the Holy Land.

Workshops will be conducted in the afternoon that will orient the attendees about the practical steps that they can take with their churches and towns to develop programs that will inform Americans about the crisis in the Holy Land and to assist Christians to remain in the land of their birth.

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