Learning from Palestinian Catholics: Hardship & Hope in Israel-Palestine (Session at the 2024 Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice)
Join the Catholic Advisory Council (CAC) of Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) for a special breakout session at the 2024 Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice in Washington DC entitled, “Learning from Palestinian Catholics: Hardship & Hope in Israel-Palestine.” This special breakout session will be held from 7:30-8:30 PM on the opening night of the conference, October 26th, and feature remarks from the CAC’s Julie Schumacher-Cohen and Shaddy Maklouf, a Palestinian-American Catholic Student.
For more information, a full schedule of events, and to register, please visit the IFTJ’s website here.
Shaddy Makhlouf is a Palestinian-American Catholic and an International Politics student at Georgetown University. He has worked with a civil rights and development organization in Haifa aimed at empowering the city’s Palestinian community and an international development consulting firm in Amman. At Georgetown, he leads Catholic retreats and captains the Arabic debate team.
