{"id":4847,"date":"2026-05-26T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/ilkley\/?p=4847"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:01:11","slug":"our-next-speaker-thursday-14-5-the-ecumenical-accompaniment-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/ilkley\/2026\/05\/26\/our-next-speaker-thursday-14-5-the-ecumenical-accompaniment-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Our next speaker: Thursday 14\/5 The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) is an international programme coordinated by the World Council of Churches. It brings people from around the world to the West Bank to serve for three months as human rights monitors. We call them Ecumenical Accompaniers (EAs).<\/p>\n<p>Two years on from Hilary\u2019s last visit she tells us about her recent travels and what she found in the West Bank. Craft items from Palestine and the West Bank will be for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Non-members are welcome to visit our meetings but please let us know beforehand. Speak to one of our members &#8211; or email soroptimistsilkley@gmail.com .<\/p>\n<p>You can watch a video about the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=voVG_kWv2Gk\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) is an international programme coordinated by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":789,"featured_media":4850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Our next speaker: Thursday 14\/5 The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme | News | Blog | Events | SI Ilkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Ilkley : Blog &amp; News : Our next speaker: Thursday 14\/5 The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Ilkley . 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