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Diyar

Diyar Consortium and Dar al-Kalima Inaugurate Sports Hall

March 10, 2014 by communications coordinator

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Canadian speed skater Cindy Klassen, a six-time Olympic medalist, has helped inaugurate a $1.2 million indoor gym for Palestinian women in the biblical town of Bethlehem. Women’s participation in sports is still relatively unusual in Palestinian society, which encourages gender separation in much of public life. Several women’s soccer teams … [Read more…]

Posted in: ELCJHL News, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) News Tagged: Accompaniment, Bethlehem, Diyar, ELCJHL, Evangelical Lutheran Schools, Palestinian Christians, Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb

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