United Methodists are responding to Kairos Palestine: A Moment of Truth ,a statement of faith and urgent call to action from Christians in Palestine. UMKR seeks, through nonviolent means and in partnership with Palestinian Christians, freedom, justice and equality for all Palestinians and Israelis.
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Kairos Palestine Kairos Palestine II
Learn more about the groundbreaking Kairos Palestine II Document
and read it on our website Go there
A Congregational Study Guide
for Kairos Palestine II
About the Cover Design
Firas Thabet, Gaznica, 2025, acrylic on canvas,
127 x 152 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
“Every brushstroke in my paintings carries the pain of a nation.” Firas Thabet’s work appeared in the "Gaza Biennale” in an exhibition entitled From Gaza to the World, which opened on September 11, 2025 in Brooklyn, NY. Most of the 25 artists remain in Gaza, and do their work amid the rubble of the ruins which Israel has reduced Gaza to. Thabet’s Gaznica, like Picasso’s Guernica, shows devastation and despair and illustrates that in a time of war and genocide, art is not a luxury but an essential record of life as well as death.
Readers Theater in the Kairos Palestine II Study Guide
This video is a performance of a resource included in the Study Guide: the Readers Theater.
There is power in a reading performance. Consider using the text found in the study guide (above) with your own readers or use this video: in a “Minute for Mission” at church, in a gathering with a meal, or in another format.
Three Christians organizations – The Palestine Justice Network (PJN) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR), and Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) – have developed a congregational study guide for the new Kairos Palestine document, "A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide."
This resource invites congregations into a sacred dialogue with the Kairos Palestine II document—a living confession born from the heart of Palestinian Christian suffering.
Church leaders and members will find that this guide is suitable for use in every liturgical season throughout the year.
To study it during Lent, the ancient season of preparation and renewal, is to walk the path of baptism once more: to rediscover what it means to pledge our faith in Christ and to boldly renounce the sin and evil alive in our world today.
The study guide sessions are grounded in current realities in Gaza, the West Bank, and within the wider Palestinian diaspora, where church leaders describe an ongoing time of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and forced displacement.
This guide situates the new Kairos Palestine text within the long arc of ecumenical concern for Palestine/Israel and invites congregations to receive it as a cry to the global church for help and hope.