Dia-Logos Podcast - Episode 20 - Peacemaking in the War Zone with Dina Katanacho

Dina, the, the, the challenges that you must face, you've spoken here about trying to find your identity.

You've spoken about the fact that less than 2% of people, um, in the area in which you live are Bible-believing, Jesus-following Christians.

So what are some of the massive challenges that you need to face as the Arab Israeli Bible Society when in this minority in a place where people are battling for identity?

Yes.

Um, we have several challenges in our country.

Remember, as I mentioned before, it's a war zone context.

Mm.

So every decade we have several wars.

In my life, I've seen so many wars, more than eight.

Uh, we live in a war zone context and hatred and violence.

It's like a virus, and it's a challenge in our community.

People who come from the different background don't love each other.

So we need to bring real hope that is rooted in Jesus Christ and teach a theology of love and peacemaking.

So the first challenge is war zone context.

The second challenge that I see is a patriarchal society, as I mentioned.

Women, uh, uh, have a difficult in leadership, so they live in a patriarchal society, and that gives very little opportunity to live out their calling and potential.

So there is a need for us as a Bible society to empower families and to allow them to have a family-oriented ministry where the- both men and women are serving together, uh, in, in God's kingdom.

And there is a challenge also for division among churches.

So churches are divided because we have so many churches from all family, different family churches background.

So, um, um, and many times they don't really, uh, agree on certain translations.

So churches are divided.

There is a need to empower churches to work in unity for the kingdom of God, and that's part of our mission as well.

Um, we are serving all, uh, churches that come from all different background, whether are historical churches or evangelical.

And there is the challenge of media.

Mm.