All the interest generated by Mother Agapia's interview on Christian life in Palestine today leads one to research the Bethany School where she was Principal from 1998-2005.
Since we no longer have a foreign language section, I thought I would post this video ~ "Russian Icon in Bethany" here, as it's in Russian. But the scenes are spiritually educational
Gethsemane Convent/Bethany School
Gethsemane Convent/Bethany School
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Mother Martha [Wall] [at the time that was her name, Martha], gives two talks to St John the Baptist Cathedral in Wash DC
[she certainly minces no words about the Muslim village around the school...]
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Part 2 is here. Starts out the same way so one can skip ahead.
At the trapeza, Mother Martha speaks standing next to then Bishop Nicholas, now Met Nicholas of Rocor-MP