Our Mission:

Why is our Mission important?

1. In an increasingly secular world, a person's connections with the Holy Land and the Christians living there can serve to inspire reconnections, and deepening of connections, with his or her faith.  Such connections will serve as a tangible resource to keep Christianity a part of, and even central to, each person’s everyday life.

2.    If the Christian vibrant communities disappear from the Holy Land Christianity will suffer because not only will a living connection with its heritage be lost, and the maintenance and protection of its holy sites be threatened, but also because a symbol that has acted, however imperfectly, through the ages as a unifying force amongst Christians in an increasingly fragmented and fractious world will disappear.

3.    The marvel of the Holy Land - and its promise – lies in the variety of its peoples and the example they have often provided, and can provide, to the world when they exercise their living faiths side by side and demonstrate a positive interaction among themselves.

4.    Historically though always a minority in the Holy Land, Christian communities provide a small but necessary buffer between the dominant religions and cultures in the Holy Land against the tendencies that can, and often do, destroy people's willingness and ability to live peacefully together.  Without strong, vibrant living Christian communities in the Holy Land the dream of peace, and maintaining peace, in the Holy Land will be seriously diminished, to the detriment of not only the region, but also the world.

5.    The presence of Christian populations and their active participation in civil society is critical to maintaining a pluralistic Middle East and developing and maintaining tolerant, open, democratic forms of government that respect human rights, including minority rights.