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- ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton (seated, second from right) and other ELCA leaders visit with members of the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land.
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- ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton (second from left) helps lead worship at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem. She is joined by (from left) the Rev. Carrie Smith, an ELCA pastor serving Redeemer; the Rev. Munib Younan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, and the Rev. Ibrahim Azar of the denomination.
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- An ELCA delegation visits the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Bethany-Beyond-the-Jordan, a new congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. The church is built on the site where it is believed that John the Baptist baptized Jesus.
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- ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, second from right, visits Augusta Victoria Hospital, a program of The Lutheran World Federation. The ELCA supports the hospital, which offered in 2014 more than 13,200 dialysis sessions, nearly 10,000 chemotherapy sessions and more than 14,000 interventions in the radiation oncology unit on an outpatient basis.
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- ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton and the Rev. Munib Younan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, meet with Patriarch Theophilos III, (center) the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem.
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- An ELCA delegation of leaders visit with Patriarch Fouad Twal (center), the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
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- ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton and the Rev. Munib Younan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, meet with Patriarch Nourhan Manougian (center), the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem.
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- As part of their January 2015 pilgrimage to the Holy Land, an ELCA delegation visits the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
In January, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton led a delegation of ELCA leaders to visit the people and ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, a companion church of the ELCA. During their visit they met with patriarchs and archbishops of various churches and learned the latest in health care services at Augusta Victoria Hospital, a program of The Lutheran World Federation.
(Photos/Danae Hudson, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land)
