A Different Path
Two years of genocide in Gaza. Ongoing violence in the West Bank. Generations of displacement, injustice, and unhealed wounds. Yet, as Christians turn their gaze to Bethlehem each Christmas, many overlook or even condone the ongoing suffering in the very land of Jesus’ birth—including that of Palestinian Christians, whose communities and traditions trace back to the earliest church.
Red Candle was born from a simple conviction: our faith compels us to chart a new path.
Light a Candle
Light a red candle for Palestine as part of your holiday traditions.
Sign the Pledge
Sign the pledge as an embodied commitment to justice and peace.
Share the Light
Tell others about the movement and how they can get involved.
Peaceful People Calling for Peaceful Solutions
Red Candle is a nonviolent movement for justice and peace in Palestine. We invite Christians around the world to stand in costly solidarity with Palestinians through prayer, action, and advocacy—rejecting apathy and theological distortions like Christian Zionism that sanctify violence.
We imagine Christians prayerfully turning to Bethlehem and Jerusalem during the holidays as a way of recentering on Jesus’ radical call to peacemaking, asking Jesus to fuel our advocacy for peace and justice—particularly for our Palestinian siblings in Christ.
How to Participate
Our Partners
Imagining A Better Future
We envision the Church united around a peaceful and flourishing Holy Land where all people—Palestinian, Israeli, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, believer and non-believer—live together in equality, dignity, and freedom.
