Post by Fr David Neuhaus SJ | 15 December 2025 The Advent readings give an important place to the figure of John the Baptist. He teaches us how to wait for the Christ who is coming. Last week, he announced: “One who is more powerful (…) is coming after me… He will clear his threshing […]
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Post by Fr David Neuhaus SJ | 12 December 2025 This reflection was written just before I left Johannesburg to return to Jerusalem. It was published as the weekly bulletin by the Jesuit Institute South Africa, my base in Johannesburg. As an Israeli of South African origin, privileged to spend time each year in South
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Post by Fr David Neuhaus SJ | 11 December 2025 Yuval Abraham is an Israeli journalist and filmmaker. He won an Oscar together with Palestinians Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal for their documentary “No Other Land”. Abraham was born in 1995 into a Jewish Israeli family in Beer Sheba. After being conscripted into the army,
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Article by Fr David Neuhaus SJ | 8 December 2025 I want to share a wonderful experience. I listened to Darlene Creamer interview Mark James OP, Dominican priest, deeply involved in the ministry to the deaf community in South Africa. In the illuminating interview on his new book “Proud to be Deaf: Saintliness in the
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Ashley Green-Thompson was the MC at the book launch. Read his latest article where he writes about the book. Read it here
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John and Sam Munayer, are leaders among a new generation of Palestinian theologians and dear friends. They have written an article on Advent. Click to read it. Click here to buy their new book.
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Today marked the 78th anniversary since the United Nations’ decision to partition Palestine on November 29, 1947. The book “Conquest or Leaven” analyses this decision in chapter 3, beginning thus: “On November 29, 1947, the United Nations (UN) passed resolution 181 that partitioned Palestine into two states, a Jewish one and a Palestinian Arab one,
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Click here to Read the article by Fr David about the seizure of Sebastia here
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