Baptizing An Olive Tree

Baptizing An Olive Tree

Would You Baptize an olive tree? This is not a rhetorical question, but a story that happened to a man in Galilee. His name is Elias Chacour, a Palestinian Arab Israeli who served as the Archbishop of All of Galilee from 2006 to 2012. He is a member of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and his family lineage goes back for millennia. As a child, Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. He was a true native of this conflicted land.…