Mitri Raheb

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Mitri Raheb

Mitri Raheb (* 1962 in Bethlehem ; also: Mitri Rahib; Arabic متري الراهب, DMG Mitrī ar-Rāhib ) is a Lutheran pastor and Arab Christian , founder of the International Meeting Center in Bethlehem, founder of the Dar al-Kalima School and pastor at the Christmas Church in Bethlehem, which is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land ( ELCJHL) heard. Raheb and his positions are also known beyond the national borders. In addition to and in connection with the school and a conference and cultural center, he is the President of the Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture .

Live and act

When Raheb was 13 years old, his father died, so he continued to run his father's bookstore in addition to school. Raheb later studied Protestant theology at the Hermannsburg Missionary Seminar and at the Philipps University of Marburg . Here he earned his doctorate in theology with a thesis on church history on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Palestine . At the age of 26, Raheb began to work as a pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. In 1989 he married Najwa Khoury. The couple have two daughters, Dana and Tala.

In 1995 Mitri Raheb founded the International Center of Bethlehem - ICB, Arabic: Dar an-Nadwa ad-Dawwliyya , "House of International Encounters "). In the first service after the 39-day Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in April to May 2002, in which around 200 PLO fighters had holed up, Raheb proclaimed: “The war cannot rob us of our vision, in peace with ours Neighbors living together ”. In 1998 Raheb founded the Dar al-Kalima School, in 2003 the Dar al-Kalima Health & Wellness Center , in 2004 the Il'illiyeh Restaurant and the al-Kuz Coffee shop , and in 2010 the Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture .

Raheb is one of the signatories of the 2009 Kairos-Palestine Document .

reception

In 2008 Raheb received the Aachen Peace Prize . As a justification, the chairman of the Aachen Peace Prize citizens' initiative said that Raheb was committed to “a variety of ways for Jews and Palestinians to live together peacefully”. In 2011 he was awarded the German Media Prize by the former Federal President Roman Herzog . The Swedish Olof Palme Foundation (Olof Palme Minnesfond) awarded the 2015 Olof Palme Prize of the year to Mitri Raheb and the Israeli journalist Gideon Levy for their “intrepid and tireless fight against occupation and violence, and for a future Middle East that is through peaceful Coexistence and equal rights for all ”.

As a Palestinian Christian, Raheb represents a group of Palestinians who play an important role in the global opinion struggle over Israeli politics. Because of his criticism of the Israeli occupation, he was repeatedly and severely attacked by Christian Zionists. The German theologians Ekkehard and Wolfgang Stegemann wrote in an open letter to the EKD that he was propagating the “de-Judgment” of Jesus ”. Especially after Raheb's award of the German Media Prize became known, the allegations of the German-Israeli Society were that he was comparing Israel in an ahistorical way and with defamatory intent to the apartheid regime in South Africa. With statements such as those that the “Israeli occupation of Palestinian land” was “a sin against God”, he was serving “centuries - old anti-Jewish stereotypes”. The theologian Albrecht Lohrbächer accuses Raheb of glorifying violence.

Fonts

  • The Reformation Legacy Among the Palestinians: The Origin of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan. Gütersloh 1990, ISBN 3-579-00127-2 .
  • Bethlehem 2000: Past and Present. Palmyra, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-930378-21-3 .
    • German edition: Bethlehem 2000: A city between times. Palmyra, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-930378-18-3 .
  • I am a Christian and a Palestinian. Israel, its neighbors and the Bible. 2nd Edition. Gütersloher Publishing House, Gütersloh 1995, ISBN 3-579-01307-6 . (Gütersloh paperbacks 1307)
    • English: I am a Palestinian Christian.
  • Christian and Palestinian. AphorismA-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86575-150-4 . (Small series of publications by the AphorismA cultural association, vol. 18)
  • Bethlehem behind walls. Stories of hope from a besieged city. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2005, ISBN 3-579-06853-9 .
    • English: Bethlehem Besieged
  • Rooted in the Holy Land. Introduction to Palestinian Christianity. (Ed.) Knecht, Metzingen 1995, ISBN 3-7820-0729-8 .
  • Being a Christian in the Arab world. 25 years of service in Bethlehem, collected essays and speeches by a contextual theologian from Palestine (with an introduction by Khouloud Daibes and an afterword by Manfred Kock), AphorismA, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86575-043-3 .
  • Belief under imperial power. A Palestinian Theology of Hope. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2014 ISBN 978-3-579-08511-1 (German version by Faith in the Face of Empire )

Awards

Web links

Commons : Mitri Raheb  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ M. Raheb, I am a Palestinian Christian, with a foreword by Rosemary Radford Ruether. 1995; ders. Invention of history. A century of interplay between theology and politics in Palestine, 2011.
  2. ↑ CV: Fact and Figures official website; see also [1] Christian Book Previews: Mitri Rahebs Bio , accessed on July 21, 2013
  3. ↑ German Development Service congratulates on the Aachen Peace Prize 2008 . AD HOC NEWS. September 2, 2008. Retrieved July 6, 2010.
  4. ↑ CV: Fact and Figures official website, accessed on July 21, 2013
  5. ^ Website of the Dar al-Kalima College College
  6. ^ Palestinians boycott Jewish settlements . swissinfo . May 12, 2010. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
  7. ↑ Aachen Peace Prize with a focus on the Middle East . Cologne city indicator . May 8th, 2008. Archived from the original on December 6th, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 6, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ksta.de
  8. ↑ Communication from the Olof Palme Foundation from December 2015 . Olof Palme Minnesfond . January 15, 2016. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  9. ^ B. Simon, Christians in the Holy Land CNN April 22, 2012
  10. ^ Open letter to SEK and EKD from June 4, 2013
  11. ↑ Press release DIG Munich, Raheb is not a peacemaker DIG Munich February 17, 2012
  12. ^ Pastor Mitri Raheb receives media award , Deutschlandfunk, March 23, 2012
  13. ↑ A winners who offend ( Memento of 26 February 2012 at the Internet Archive ) day review of 23 March 2012
  14. ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendung/tagfuertag/1683917/
  15. ↑ http://www.bz-berlin.de/aktuell/berlin/deutscher-medienpreis-fuer-mitri-raheb-article1393658.html
personal data
SURNAME Raheb, Mitri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian founder and director of the International Meeting Center in Bethlehem
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bethlehem