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And so we have reached the end of our journey - thank you for travelling with us.

It’s been great to see so many people from around the world get involved; from comments and prayers, to emails sent to MPs, and postcards of encouragement sent to the people we’ve met.

Alleluia, Christ is risen!

He is risen indeed, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Yesterday was Good Friday.
Today is an inconvenience.

Today we walk the Via Dolorosa - the Way of Grief.

This is the road that Jesus took to his crucifixion, weaving its way through today’s Old City, from just inside the Lion Gate to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre that houses both Golgotha, and the tomb in which Jesus body was laid.

Rev Dr Naim Ateek, who we heard from right at the very beginning of our journey has written our prayers for Holy Week and Easter.

Tucked away up narrow alleys in the maze of streets that makes up the Old City in Jerusalem is the Syrian Orthodox Church of St Mark.

It sits on the supposed site of John Mark’s house, where Peter fled after he was miraculously freed from prison in Acts 12.

Sanaa and Ali Sarasreh and their three children, Mohammed who is nine, Karmel, eight, and mischievous three-year-old Yaffa are an ordinary family with ordinary hopes for a normal life.

In the kitchen in Ali’s house in Bethlehem, Sanaa is making maqlouba, Ali’s favourite dish. Maqlouba means ‘upside down’ in Arabic, because the pot is turned over just before the dish is served.

But it’s not the only thing turned upside down in this family.

Jerusalem is Holy city, of that there is no doubt. Everywhere you look there is a place of worship or an important historic site. Usually it is both; a place of worship built on a historic site.

In Holy Week we are thinking of Jesus’ last days, but Jerusalem is also significant for the other faiths that claim a descent from Abraham, for Islam and Judaism too.

We are now in the last week of our journey together and it won’t be long before we part company and head for home.

Wherever in the world that is, it is much more than just the place we live. Homes are more than bricks and mortar. They are about our roots, they hold our possessions, our memories, our family connections they are part of who we are.

Homes are so much more than just houses. This is why when someone loses their home it is so traumatic.