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Prayers and Wishes
Children's PRAYERS FROM
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prayers in Arabic
We pray to have flying kites
So as to be able to fly
We would like to raise the Palestinian flag
And the Israeli occupation will be over
We pray that the Israeli soldiers will leave our
country
So that we can sing beautiful songs
And we pray that our country will be full of
green mountains and blue rivers
We wish to have
fun with our relatives
We like to eat Christmas sweets a lot
Because they are delicious and we help our
mothers to prepare them
We like to decorate the Christmas tree
It is so nice to exchange visits and to greet
one another during Christmas
Bethlehem will become beautiful with all the
Christmas decoration in the streets and on the
buildings
We pray to God
to help us succeed with our studies and forgive
our sins
We pray to heal all sick people and to protect
all parents, brothers, and sisters
Kids
group from Bethlehem/Beit Sahour/Beit Jala, of
about 25 children, around 8 years old.
Oh Lord,
When my father
gives us a ride in his car, I see the wall
everywhere I go
I pray that one day this all will be demolished
So the Israelis and us can be friends or good
neighbors
I am a member in
one of the scouts in Bethlehem
At Christmas, I join in the scouts processions,
as a drummer
In the processions we are all one
I hope that all
the conflicts and problems in families will be
over
I pray to God that we will love one another
again and never fight
I hope that parents will love their children
And bring them presents
And celebrate the New Year together as one
family.
Jacob Marcos,
12 years old, Terra Sancta School for Boys
I pray that
Palestine will be free from Israeli occupation
I pray that justice will prevail among the
nations
I pray that peace will spread and that all sad
people will be filled with happiness
especially at Christmas
I pray that my
friends and I will stay together
I pray for the New Year with its new challenges
Maher Maria,
11 years , Terra Sancta School for Boys,
Bethlehem
Dear Lord,
The conflict
between Israel and Palestine should be resolved
Israelis and Palestinians should live in
tolerance, peace and harmony
My family and I share joy and happiness because
Jesus was born in Bethlehem
Let Santa Claus give children a toy as Christmas
gift
Let there be barbecues and let children play
cards and computer games if they can
Let the children’s wishes for the future come
true
Thank you, Lord
Youssef
Mitri, 11 years, Terra Sancta School for Boys,
Bethlehem
I live in
Bethlehem, which is a very beautiful town
It is surrounded by the Separation Wall
This prevents us from going to Jerusalem to
visit the Holy Sepulcher Church and the Aqsa
Mosque
I really hope that Palestine will be free
So that we are able to go to Jerusalem and visit
our relatives there
During
Christmas, many pilgrims from different
countries come to join us in our celebration
I love Christmas because I share with people
love and joy
The New Year makes us one year older
I wish all families everywhere the blessings
from God
I pray that I will be a doctor in the future and
treat all those who can't afford paying for
their medication
Ibrahim
Qattan, 13 years, Latin Patriarchate School in
Beit Jala.
It's just
terrible to watch the mess that happened there
in Gaza and remain unable to do anything. But we
are still able to wish, to pray.
Ferial Qassis
Teacher Talitha Kumi Beit Jala
“My God, I'm asking you by every name you have to
make my wishes come true. I wish your mercy will linger on this world which
became like a zoo. I wish all these children who will be birds in heaven to stop
crying, to stop seeing all this blood around! And please My Lord, make us able
to help them, make them feel safe, and dry their tears. I wish one day Israelis
will be able to feel, to be merciful, just as you are. My God, you're the only
one who's able to stop cruelty, and able to see what you prepared for good
people. Maybe if they received your forgiveness and mercy they too will make
this world like a heaven. Amen.”
Tony Nassar, teacher Dar al-Kalima School,
Bethlehem
Oh God, with each drop of blood which moves in
each one of us let us keep people feeling with humanity and be human beings.
Samia Shahin, teacher Terra Sancta
school, Bethlehem
We pray in all
the churches for the future of Gaza, for wisdom
and a peaceful future.We pray for strength of
spirit and for justice. Let God bless everybody.
Lorette Zoughbi, Bethlehem
Wishes for Gaza
We are children from Bethlehem, West
Bank/Palestine. We live near the Nativity Church, the Birthplace of Jesus
Christ, and nearby the Milk Grotto Church where the Virgin Mary fed Jesus, the
child. During Christmas the people of Bethlehem received wishes and prayers from
all parts of the world and we in turn like to pray for you to receive the most
precious gift - God's love as proclaimed by the angels to the shepherds of
Bethlehem. We love you as He loved us all.
Members of a youth group, Bethlehem.
An international peace activist told us why she
wanted to return to Gaza. "It is because of the people of Gaza. It is their
spirit, courage, resilience or sumud, kindness, warmth, hospitality, love and
resistance to the occupation that pulls me back."
Elias, teacher from Beit Sahour.
Oh Lord, please lift up the weight of suffering
that is on the people of Gaza. Give them peace and tranquility and let them
taste the meaning of life. Give them strength to stand up for themselves and the
ability to take care of their children. God bless us all. Amen
Sylvana Giacaman, Bethlehem
The following prayers and cries of the heart,
all about “peace,” are from 11th
grade students of the Terra Sancta School in Bethlehem.
1.As a Palestinian youth student that lives
through occupation, talking about "peace" has become way too complicated as a
result of Israel's twisted point of view about peace. "Peace" has become a good
that Israeli politics buy and sell in order to satisfy their hunger
for new settlements and lands. In return we are asked to stick to their peace
which in fact is surrender. For real peace we should take away the Wall and
apply the right actions that provide a fair solution for the Palestinians as
well as the Israelis and most of all completely forbid to violate each other’s
property.
2.I am a Palestinian student in Bethlehem city in
the 11th grade. I wish and pray that peace is possible. However, up
til now Israel doesn’t give us our rights as Palestinians. They don't follow any
rules. There are lots of obstacles to peace as: the wall, the Israeli control
over Jerusalem, their attempts to change the features of the city to bocome
Jewish, the many prisoners in Israeli jails, the refugees, the massacres and
illegal practices against Palestinians by the Israeli army, the building of more
settlements, the illegal checkpoints. All do not bring peace. Palestinians
want peace despite all the suffering, but Israelis see peace as something
impossible. The Israeli government doesn't accept the Geneva agreements which
can give us a lot of our rights. The Israelis don't do anything on the ground to
improve the peace process. Still I pray for peace.
3.In my opinion as a student in Bethlehem at the
Terra Sancta High School, I don't think that we will see peace one day. Everyday
we see the Separation Wall which surrounds us as a prison. We can't reach the
most holy places in the world such as the Holy Sepulchre or the Dome
of the Rock. I'm seventeen years old and I can't reach most of the cities in
Palestine which are just half an hour far but I can reach other places which are
far.
4.Perhaps peace is the most needed thing here in
our country, but although it is very important, we don't find it anywhere. Peace
is like a goal we can't reach. How can we make peace and live peacefully and
safely with the existence of the separation wall and settlements everywhere we
go? How can we make peace if they keep dividing us into zones and territories as
if we are in a big prison. All of this must be vanished. Then there are the
barriers and checkpoints. People can't go anywhere outside without a permission
( that's, if he manages to get a permission). We can't even do simple things in
Israel without a permission. As a student who lives in the occupied territory of
Bethlehem, what can you say when you can't even reach the sea which is just
about 18 kilometers away from the place where I live. All these issues must be
fixed and solved –only then I can talk and pray for Peace!!
5.I think peace is how we live, it's the thing
that I depend on. However, the Israelis are using peace against us. They are
changing its meaning so that it becomes a slogan with which you can lie and
manipulate. They must stop the separation wall that confiscates our personal
rights. As a student and Palestinian living in a occupied country is like living
in a jail. We can’t save our life. We can't live it as we want it. That's
our destiny, our life.
6.I pray for a peace with freedom, having the
right to do our religious practices, owning the land without scenes of our land
being confiscated for building settlements or being separated from the land by
the separation wall. I pray that we can live in a peaceful world with the
Israelis but they should give back the lands to their owners. They should
destroy their settlements and remove the barriers and the checkpoints which
insult people who need to move from one place to another. Palestine is the city
of olives and the olive branch is the symbol of peace. As a student I wish for
peace so as to live in a quiet world without wars.
7.I cannot think of peace! What peace?! They
speak about Palestinian-Israeli peace, but there is nothing of that. People
speak about human rights but they are stolen. If they want peace and human
rights, they must stop building settlements and demolish the separation wall,
remove the checkpoints, because every meter there is one. Finally they must
protect the Dome of the Rock and the Holy Sepulcher. In the end, I don't think
that there will be peace or something like that.
8.Peace!! What a beautiful word. I wish to see
peace in our country Palestine, For that they should remove the separation wall
and the checkpoints and give us our rights. They even took our earth and country
but we only need some of our rights for peace in our life. If the Israelis give
us peace, I hope it is with real actions and not only by saying words or
slogans.
9.As a student in the 11th
grade, I wish to see a peace that means freedom, to live freely without being
afraid for what the Israelis are doing. We can see that the Israelis everyday
inflict terrible suffering on the Palestinian people. By making the separation
wall, they also try to keep us away from reaching our religious places like the
Dome of the Rock and the Holy Sepulcher. I think that peace between Palestinians
and Israelis will never come true if the Israelis will continue to commit
massacres to our people.
10.Peace is everything we need because in our
society we want to live a secure life. Bethlehem is an occupied territory; with
300 checkpoints around the West Bank, residents of West Bank can't go to the
capital of Palestine (Jerusalem). I want peace, because I want to live my life
happily like anyone in the world.
11.Peace means that everyone should have comfort
and safety, and living in a place that is full of peace without fear. As
Palestinians we face the violation of our rights and lands by the occupation.
Today our religious ceremonies become impossible and we are living in a cage. Do
you think that with all this we will have peace in Palestine?
12.We have always heard about peace and living in
a world full of peace, but nowadays peace is just a slogan without any real
foundation. Palestinians are not allowed to have their rights. They live under
constant pressure and their relationships with the outside world are frozen.
When any Palestinian wants to visit his holy land, he sees checkpoints and a
separation wall that violates Palestinian rights. As a school student I think
that when we want to establish peace, first of all the building of settlements
should be stopped and the separation wall removed, so that we do not live in a
cruel situation. Then the Palestinian people should receive all its rights.
13.As a Palestinian school student I think that I
can reach the moon before I will reach peace with the Israelis. How can we have
peace with a country that occupied our country. How can we have peace while we
live in a prison - the separation wall. Peace is living in freedom without
meeting checkpoints in order to reach the nearest town in my country.
14.Palestinians feel they are in prison. Everyday
we pray with all our might to have a bit of peace in our shaken country. Peace
is to live free without checkpoints, separation wall and settlements, without
the violation of human rights. Palestinian students feel terrible when they are
caged in by these checkpoints. Frankly, as a student in the occupied territory
of Bethlehem, I think peace will never come true under the present conditions -
but we can dream of it.
15.Peace - it's a word for peaceful people. I as
a student, and not me alone, but all students, want peace. Who doesn't want to
live in peace? But here in Bethlehem we want and pray for peace but we will not
have it until we have our freedom. But we can't have our freedom as we are
occupied by the Israelis. However we'll keep demanding, praying, shouting so
that our voice reaches above the separation wall, until we have our freedom.
Only then we will live in peace. We won't yield until we have our freedom. Right
now we are deprived from our simplest right - moving or going from city to city.
We feel like as if we are in one world and every one else, and all other cities
live in another world. How can we have freedom and live peacefully if we are
deprived from our simplest rights?
16.Peace is a very beautiful thing. All people
want peace but peace is very difficult to be realized. The Palestinian people
want peace but we live in a cage, and are surrounded by the Separation Wall.
People’s life is without stability.
17.Peace is not just a word - it has many deep
meanings. We must believe in it, but at the same time we don't think that peace
is possible, because we are deprived of our rights as humans: going to
other zones, visiting our relatives, building our future. We live in a big
prison, we don't enjoy our life. Day after day peace becomes harder to be found!
Living in Bethlehem, I think that peace is very far, and won't come
closer.
18.I am a student who lives in Bethlehem, which
is occupied territory surrounded by the Separation Wall but also known as one of
the most important and holy cities in Palestine, the birth place of
Jesus Christ. There isn’t peace in the land of peace because peace is
freedom, and not a separation wall and checkpoints. For example, I can't reach
Jerusalem unless I have a permission. If we want to live in peace, the
separation wall should be removed, massacres should stop and we should
have a new and clear relationship with the Israelis.
19.For 80 years until now, we were promised to
have peace. I pray for peace. However, this promise has disappeared since the
Israeli soldiers cut the olive branch and killed the dove of peace.
20.It is very difficult for me to say what peace
means, because I am a Jerusalemite. Other students have never felt it. Everyday
I wake up two hours before from my school bell rings, wear my uniform, then go
to pass the checkpoint. It takes me an hour and a half just waiting to pass it.
Israelis don't want peace. We should demand our rights to have peace.
21.Peace in my point of view is something we
learn from home and parents. Peace should be in the heart, and it should be
archived with true love and forgiveness. One day I had a fantasy and I thought,
what if people would forget their nationalities, and try to understand each
other. I know it is impossible, but I wonder. What if people would forget to
fight for land and start to use and invest in it. My belief is not to fight for
earth because it is material. I fight for friends, family …… my people and my
goal is to love them. If everyone takes this point of view wars would not exist.
الهم أنعم عليهم نعمة
النسيان والصبر والصمود والعزاء لينظروا إلى الأمام ولتكن لهم نعم النصير وازرع في
قلوبهم المحبة والسلام. آمين
طارق حردان
يا رب... يا رب السموات
والأرض أنت القادر على كل شيء أنت تعلم ما في الأرض وما في السموات أنت تعلم بماذا
يحصل على الأرض الفلسطينية... الأرض المقدسة التي تحمل الأديان الثلاثة. لماذا يحدث
هذا في تلك الأرض لماذا يا رب أن تحمينا وتحمي جميع الشعوب والأروض وأنا أتمنى من
كل قلبي أن أكون شهيدا بدلا من هؤلاء الأطفال الذين يستشهدون يوما بعد يوم ساعة
وراء ساعة ولا يحدث لتلك الاطفال الأبرياء ذلك الألم الذي نشاهده كل يوم على
التلفاز.
We want peace
عبدو الدجاني
نتمنى من الله بكل لغات
العالم ان يثبت صمودكم وأقدامكم ويربطها بجذور الزيتون الفلسطيني لتصبح قلاع. يندمس
الظلام على اسوارها ويرحم الشهداء ويشفي الجرحى ويرسم الابتسامة على وجوه أطفال غزة
من جديد لينبض الحياة في غزة من جديد
محمد ابو صوت
يا رب ساعد أهل غزة واشفي
الجرحى وارحم الشهداء وإهدي اسرائيل
اليسون
مع خفقان قلوبنا الجريحة،
زظلمة ليل غزة النار بشظايا قذائف الاحتلال، ربنا ابعث حياة في جرحنا وأنر لنا درب
الحرية.
فلسطيني
اللهم
ارحمنا واجمع شملنا وبسر امرنا وثبت امرنا وانصرنا
على عدونا وعلى عاونهم علينا ومن حمل السلاح علينا
او لا تجسسوا ولا تباعضوا وتوفوا عابد الله اخوانا.
معاذ
نتمنى من الله بكل لغات
العالم ان يثبت صمودكم واقدامكم ويربطنها بجذور الزيتون الفلسطيني لتصبح قلاع...
يندحس الظلام على اسوارها ويرحم الشهداء ويشفي الجرحى ويرسم الابتسامة على وجوه
اطفال غزة من جديد لينبض الحياة في غزة من جديد.
محمد أبو صواي
الموت، والحياة، الحرب،
والدماء، انا انادي الالهة، يا رب، يا مسيح، يا محمد يا موسى يا كل الانبياء،
اتسمعني!! نحن بحاجة اليك يا الله. طفلة تبحث عن خدمتي بدل بدل قدميها التي بترت.
ام تبكي رضيعها الشهيد. رجل عائلته بلا حياة، مسجد، كنيسة بلا مأذنة بلا جرس. مخيم
مدينة بلا بيوت. غزة مبللة بدماء اعزاءها تبكي الالهة فينغمر المطر. استشهد السلام
لكن رب السلام موجود فلنوقف الحرب فلنوقف الدماء.
نضال
يا رب ساعد الناس في مدينة
غزة، يا رب ارحم شهادئهم
ميس عياد
جداً آل غزة فإن موعدكم
الجنة ان شاءالله مني ومن جميع الشباب الاحرار الفائرين على وطنهم في بيت لحمانما
من الله العزيز القدير ان يقف معكم ويصبركم في محنتكم ونحن معكم قلباً وقالباً يداً
بيد ان ما يفعله المجرمين اليهود من قتل وبطش جائر لهو دليل على ضعف الاحتلال
وهزيمتهم. أطالب جميع دول العالم الذين وقعوا اتفاقيات جنيف اين انتم من ما يفعله
الاحتلال في غزة
طارق جلال 3/1/2009
يا رب السلام، إفتح عيون
المحتل وساعد العائلات الذين قتلوا أطفالهم واخوتهم، وساعد الممرضين والاطباء لكي
يساعدوا الجرحى، واحمي جميع الشعوب. آمين
سري حنضل
تمنيات لاهل غزة
1- اسأل الله أن يهبكم
الصبر والسلوان فيما أصابكم.
2- اطلب من الله أن يعطيكم الجرأة والشجاعة
في مواجهة الظروف التي تحيط بكم.
3- لا تيأسوا من رحمة الله فالحلول قادمة
باذنه.
4- طلابي وطالباتي:
اتمنى لكم النجاح والتوفيق في دروسكم.
5- جدوا واجتهدوا فعلمنا هو سلاحنا الوحيد.
6- أخواتي الحبيبات: اسأل الله أن يعطيكن
الحكمة والمعرفة في معالجة مشاكلكن.
(members of AEI’s women’s
group)
اطلب من الله الغفور
الرحيم أن يهب لشعبنا في غزة القوة اللازمة للصمود في أصعب الأوقات، وأن يعطيهم
الصبر وهدوء البال. أيها الآب السماوي، لا تنسى شعبنا في غزة وهب لهم حنانك وعطفك
حتى يزول الاحتلال للأبد انشاءالله. أمين
Jenny Baboun
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