{"id":810,"date":"2026-08-29T11:28:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wnypeace.org\/?p=810"},"modified":"2026-08-29T11:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:28:41","slug":"former-wny-peace-center-ed-vicki-ross-part-of-sabeel-ecumenical-liberation-theology-center-delegation-denied-entry-to-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wnypeace.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/former-wny-peace-center-ed-vicki-ross-part-of-sabeel-ecumenical-liberation-theology-center-delegation-denied-entry-to-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Former WNY Peace Center ED Vicki Ross Part of Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center Delegation Denied Entry to Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vicki Ross, longtime WNY Peace Center volunteer, recent Executive Director, and current ex oficio board member, was part of an August 2026 interfaith delegation that was denied entry to Israel despite Friends of Sabeel North America<\/a><\/span><\/strong>‘s history of bringing people of all faiths to visit the Holy Land. Please join us in solidarity with the Sabeel 13 and demand accountability from Israel! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click here to sign the petition: Call for an Investigation, Accountability, and Review of Israel’s Treatment of U.S. Citizens<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Click here to call your congresspersons: Seek Investigation and Accountability for Israel’s Treatment of U.S. Citizens<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Vicki Ross (center, green), with some of the other members of the FOSNA delegation who were detained and\/or denied entry to the West Bank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thank you to everyone who has covered this story:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Sojourners: “Israel Denies Entry to Delegation With Palestinian Liberation Theology Center”<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Religion News Service: “13 US citizens denied entry to Israel for weeklong trip to learn about Palestinian Christians”<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
UMNews: “United Methodists denied entry to Israel”<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Maung Zarni: “Thou Shall Not Come to the Occupied Holy Land: Israel Mistreated, & Denied Entry to, 13 American Jews, Christians, Hindus & Muslims of a US inter-faith delegation.”<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vicki Ross, longtime WNY Peace Center volunteer, recent Executive Director, and current ex oficio board member, was part of an August 2026 interfaith delegation that was denied entry to Israel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wnypeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wnypeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wnypeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wnypeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wnypeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wnypeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/www.wnypeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wnypeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wnypeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wnypeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}