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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New Ecumenical Study Guide Brings Bold Palestinian Christian Document to Congregations
See the KP II study guide
February 4, 2026 – Three Christian organizations have jointly released a new congregational study guide for the confessional document "A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide," the new Kairos Palestine II statement from Palestinian Christian leaders, issued November 2025.
Developed by 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), the study guide is a free digital download available today.
This resource invites congregations into a sacred dialogue with the Kairos Palestine II document—a living confession born from the heart of the Palestinian Christian experience.
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, an 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 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.
The guide situates the new Kairos Palestine text within the long arc of ecumenical Christian concern for Palestine/Israel and invites congregations to receive it as a cry to the global church for help and hope.
A Palestinian Christian Lens
The Kairos Palestine II document describes itself as a renewed “word of faith, hope, and love” and a “moment of truth” for the whole church. This study guide is offered as a tool for congregations to listen carefully to that word and to discern how God is calling Christians around the world to respond.
Throughout the guide, questions are framed to engage the wide spectrum of opinions present in church pews and leadership, from deep concern for Jewish–Christian relations to long-standing commitments to Palestinian human rights.
Each session invites participants to ask, “How might this issue look when viewed through the eyes of Palestinian Christians who confess Christ in a time of genocide?” Further, how might we as Christians let that perspective challenge and deepen our own discipleship?
Contents:
Leader’s guide
Text of Kairos Palestine II
5 session plans
Worship materials
Readers’ Theater
Palestine 101 – a primer
Current denominational policies
Glossary
Recommended reading list
The study guide is intended to equip Christians to speak the truth about Palestinian realities while rooting that truth-telling in a theology of social justice and the traditions and positions of their church.
Find more information and download the guide on UMKR's website:
https://www.kairosresponse.org/kp2guide.html
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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.