63. Accompanying Elections under Occupation: Between Ballots and Barbed Wire
Click here for the report "Accompanying Elections under Occupation: Between Ballots and Barbed Wire – Former U.S. President Carter and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem among those who hear Reports about Election Day in Palestine"
Click here for the text of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's address to the gathering.
Click here for the text of Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah's address to the gathering.
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A Palestinian priest, Father George Awad of the Greek Orthodox Church in Nablus, voting in the January 9th, 2005, election for Palestinian president. All voters had their thumbs marked with indelible ink.
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A Palestinian priest, Father George Awad of the Greek Orthodox Church in Nablus, voting in the January 9th, 2005, election for Palestinian president. He said he and his parishioners all hope that life will be better for Palestinians because of this vote.
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A university student in Asira ash Shamalya says the pictures are of the village's 35 "martyrs" since the start of the Occupation in 1967.
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Accompanier Maria Fahmy from Denmark talking with Fatah Youth organizers in Nablus on Election Day.
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Ecumenical Accompaniers Erik Mohlin from Sweden (l.) and Maria Fahmy from Denmark (r.) talk with Fatah Youth organizers at the entrance to a polling station in Askar Camp in Nablus on Palestinian Election Day.
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People registering for the July legislative elections on the presidential Election Day at Najah University in Nablus.
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Church leaders and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter listen in on the presentation of an Ecumenical Accompanier.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrives at the meeting called by the WCC where Ecumenical Accompaniers presented their observations to the Jerusalem Heads of Churches, members of the programme's Local Reference Group, and special guests.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, U.S. Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-Ca.), and Lutheran Bishop Munib Younan (l. to r.).
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Former US President Jimmy Carter meeting with Ecumenical Accompaniers and religious leaders.
