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 Rifat Odeh Kassis (1940—) is a Palestinian human rights, political, and community activist. He is an author and speaker who has been arrested and imprisoned by the Israeli Occupation Forces multiple times. In 1991 he founded the Palestinian section of the international child rights organization, Defense for Children International (DCI). In 1995, he co-founded the Alternative Tourism Group (ATG), a Palestinian NGO specializing in tours and pilgrimages to the region. As a response to the second Intifada he founded the "Keep Hope Alive Campaign" which has worked tirelessly since 2002 to combat the ecocide occurring in Palestine by planting olive trees. He is the author of several articles and study papers as well as two books, including Kairos for Palestine which was published in 2011. Part memoir, part political history, part theological reflection, this volume examines the history of Kairos documents from Christians in various global contexts, shares the background of the Kairos Palestine Document of December 2009, and demonstrates the importance and urgency of this movement of Palestinian Christians.
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