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Beit Sahour, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1525/26 (AH 932), Beit Sahur an-Nasara ('Christian Beit Sahur') had 5 Christian and 7 Muslim households, increasing in 1538/39 (AH 945) to 8 Christian and 8 Muslim households. [14]
Brigadier General Ephraim Lapid claimed that the "PR battle" was one that Israel could not win, saying that "the Arab culture has no problem in spreading distortions and lies" and that media focused on the most sensational glimpses of events, pointing towards the Beit Sahour tax strike, in which he claimed that media "failed to mention was the ...
The Shepherds' Field Chapel (Arabic: كنيسة حقل الرعاة; Hebrew: כנסיית שדה הרועים) [citation needed], or the Sanctuary of Gloria in excelsis Deo, [1] is a Roman Catholic religious building in Beit Sahour, southeast of Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine.
Beit Sahour was first settled in the 14th century by a handful of Christian and Muslim clans (hamula) from Wadi Musa in Jordan, the Christian Jaraisa and the Muslim Shaybat and Jubran, who came to work as shepherds for Bethlehem's Christian landowners, and they were subsequently joined by other Greek Orthodox immigrants from Egypt in the 17th ...
The Wanted 18 (Arabic: المطلوبون 18, romanized: al-maṭlūbūn 18) is a 2014 Palestinian-Canadian animated documentary about the efforts of Palestinians in Beit Sahour to start a small local dairy industry during the First Intifada, hiding a herd of 18 dairy cows from Israeli security forces when the dairy collective was deemed a threat to Israel's national security.
For example, one cooperative in Beit Sahour focused on providing tools and pesticides to agricultural cooperatives, and others focused on planting trees, with the Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network stating that "over 500,000 trees were planted across Palestine between 1987 and 1989" as a result of the Intifada cooperatives. [14]
William Hanna Shomali (born 15 May 1950 in Beit Sahour, West Bank) is a Palestinian Catholic prelate who serves as an auxiliary bishop for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Born in 1950 and ordained priest on June 24, 1972, he has served for eight years in the parishes of Jordan, 19 years as professor then as rector of the ...
Alternative Tourism Group and Study Center (ATG) is a Palestinian NGO based in Beit Sahour that specialises in tours and pilgrimages that include critical examinations of the history, culture, and politics of the Holy Land.