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Al-liqa' News
Conference on
“Theology and the Local Church in the Holy Land”
(Palestinian Contextualized Theology Conference)
October 2006
Preparatory Committee Meeting
31 July 2006-08-08 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Al-Liqa’ Center
Read the program
Present |
: Fr. Dr. Rafiq Khoury, Mrs Hanadi Soudah, Mr. Ziyad Shlewet,
Mr. ‘Amer Al-Baba, Dr. Geries S. Khoury, Dr. ‘Abd Al-Rahman
‘Abbad, Mr. Lawrence Sammour, Mr. Mousa Darwish, Bishop Atallah
Hanna |
Excused Absence |
: Bishop Munib Younan, Dr. Adnan Musallam |

In a previous meeting of the Committee, it was decided that the title of
the 2006 conference will be as follows:
Christian Arabs in the Holy Land
Between the Crisis of Identity and Belonging
In the 31 July meeting attendees discussed the working paper prepared by
Fr. Rafiq Khoury in which proposals were put forth with the purpose of
generating the program of the conference. Following prolonged discussion
the following themes were approved:
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Identity and its educational, cultural, social, political…
dimensions
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Palestinian Christian Arab identity in Palestine
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Palestinian Christian Arab identity in Israel
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Islam and Arab nationalism (Trends in the Islamic and Arab areas)
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Christianity and Arab nationalism (Trends in the Arab Area)
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Challenges facing the Palestinian Christian Arabs youth in defining
their identity
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Challenges of Palestinian Christian Identity:
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The new Middle East design and its local repercussions
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The traitors and their attempts to poison common living and
commitment to Arab identity
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Problems arising in terms defining identity: occupation, green
line, Arabs of 1948, Arabs of the interior, expelled ones,
refugees.
8.
A concluding panel comprising religious
personalities, politicians and sociologists.
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