Ang swee chai biography of christopher
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Eyewitness: A woman surgeon working with the Palestinians
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Consultant orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Swee Ang, spoke about her faith and her growing understanding and concern for the plight of the Palestinian people, in a talk she gave at St Paul's, Cambridge on 12 January The full text follows:
I grew up in Singapore. When I was 19, I attended a Billy Graham Crusade and made the decision to follow Jesus. At that time inom did not know that meant discipleship. I had not heard of his disciples like Nathanael, nor Andrew, nor Phillip, nor Simon and how with the exception of John, they were all martyred. My parents were Chinese speaking atheists. I also had no idea Jesus was a Jew!
Soon after that inom was baptised in a Fundamentalist, Pro-Israel church. I taught Sunday school, including the conquest of Canaan, David and Goliath, and the victory of Elijah against the Philistines. For me, the Abrahamic Covenant only consisted of the Promised Land to God's chosen people
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Bilal and Samir
Just over a year ago, on the last day of , ‘a small boy called Bilal was crossing an alley in the Palestinian refugee camp of Bourj al Barajneh in southern Beirut. High in a building outside the camp a sniper belonging to the Amal militia was watching the alleyway. When Bilal came into his sights he squeezed the trigger.’ With these words Pauline Cutting opens her fine account of the eighteen months she spent as a surgeon at the camp. Bilal was found to be paralysed from the waist down: he is one of two boys who were taken for treatment to Stoke Mandeville hospital in England, and with whom I am about to return to Beirut. Reading Pauline’s book has been no easy task for me, bringing back as it does an experience I shared with her, an experience both bitter and sweet which I would in many ways be glad to forget. But how could I do so?
Medical Aid for Palestinians now has 12 volunteer workers dispersed all over war-torn Lebanon. I shall be takin
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Christmas Reflection on Gaza from Dr Swee Ang
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Consultant orthopaedic surgeon, author and founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians, Dr Swee Ang Chai writes: On this Christmas morning, I was thinking about what Christmas means to all of us who are deeply shaken and broken by the brutal massive killing of innocent lives in Gaza and the total destruction of homes and all institutions for human survival like hospitals, schools, generators, churches, mosques, universities, farms with the denial of food, water and electricity. Gaza is being laid waste and her children murdered - at least 20, in two months with 9, children - with others taken prisoners to be tortured and killed.
We are angry and helpless and despondent. Yet we know we cannot despair and must do whatever we can to support the Palestinians.
Last night at Midnight Mass, my priest called for prayers for Gaza. In fact he has been doing this at every single Mass since October. He believes it is the