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A Palestinian Christian Working for Peace and Reconciliation in Israel CANCELLED

Elias Chacour Interviewed by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Friday, 31 March 2023

2:00pm

1 hour

Bodleian: Divinity School

£7 - £12.50

This event has been cancelled. Ticket purchases will be refunded by the TicketSource box office. If you purchased your ticket with a credit for 2020, the credit has been restored to your code.

Former Archbishop of Galilee in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church Elias Chacour talks about his life and his many decades of work to build peace between Palestinians and Jews.

Chacour grew up in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. His personal quest began when tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps in 1948. He has used historical and biblical research to uncover a little-known side to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Chacour looks at questions such as what caused the turmoil in the Middle East? what does biblical prophecy really say about these people and this place? and can bitter enemies ever be reconciled?
Chacour has built libraries, community centres and youth clubs across Israel’s Galilee region to try to bring reconciliation between Palestinians and Jews. He founded a school – Mars Elias Educational Institutions – where over 3000 students, Christians, Jews, Muslims and Druze, study side by side as one community.

He has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize three times. He was Archbishop of Akko, Haifa, Nazareth and All Galilee of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 2006 to 2014. He has received many honours including the World Methodist Peace Award, the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, the Peacemakers in Action Award from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, and the Niwano Peace Prize in Japan. Here he talks to Professor Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch, emeritus professor of the history of the Church at the University of Oxford, known for his work, A History of Christianity. The event will be introduced by the Dean of Lichfield Cathedral, the Very Revd Adrian Dorber.

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The Telegraph Festival media partner University of Oxford European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Oxford Mathematics Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Compassion in World Farming Pasture to Plate Oxford Business College Where learning meets opportunity: education partners of the festival Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Critchleys Accountants to the festival Confucius Institute Voltaire Foundation Felicity Bryan Associates Goldmoney Properties Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Jim Mellon Miles Young Tim and Marion Stevenson Martin and Elise Becket Smith Ian and Carol Sellars David Isaac Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Yale University Press London New College New College founded 1379 Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 Reuben College Reuben College founded in 2019 Pusey House Brasenose College Brasenose College founded in 1512 New Dutch Writing Human Ecology Project MACROVegan Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford University Images Oxford University Images CAV Oxford The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders Windrush Group The Oxford Times BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Conference Oxford Ox in a Box OX magazine