RAMALLAH March 13 (JMCC) - Last December, Palestinian Christians launched the Palestinian Kairos Document, 'A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love from the heart of Palestinian suffering' (www.kairospalestine.ps).

Inspired by the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and written 24 years after South African theologians published their Kairos Document, more than a dozen Palestinian church leaders and theologians from various denominations co-authored the document as a “cry of hope in the absence of all hope,” addressed to Palestinians, Israelis and “Christian brothers and sisters in the Churches around the world.”

Timothy Seidel writes about the Kairos document during Lent in the Holy Land.