Jesus birthplace, Bethlehem, offers 2013 Christmas Day Gift to the World, Forgiveness

LOS ANGELES - Oct. 23, 2013 - PRLog -- Jesus birthplace, Bethlehem, offers 2013 Christmas Day Gift to the World, a global Forgiveness Concert and Ceremony.

Working in cooperation with Project Peace On Earth, LLC (PPOE) based in Los Angeles, CA, Palestinian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Rula Ma’ayah, announced in a recent October 2013 letter, that Bethlehem would support and become a beacon of peace to the world through this year’s PPOE World Forgiveness Project Concert and Ceremony.

On December 25^th, 2013, Christmas Day from Bethlehem,  PPOE in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and The Bethlehem Convention Place, plan to host the 3^rd annual worldwide peace concert and aerial art image called “The World Forgiveness Project Concert and Ceremony.”  The concert will feature world-famed rock-stars and sacred musical acts performing inspirational music to create a globally televised musical prayer for peace.  According to Steve Robertson, Founder and CEO of PPOE, “Sacred music is the fastest and most effective way to move people back into their hearts.  Here, individuals can know the truth of peace.  Here, we are collectively able to expand our capacity to forgive and love again.”

On this same Christmas day, from special location in Palestine (TBA), a wooden ceremonial art structure will be adorned with forgiveness messages (photos, poems, art, written messages, etc.) from around the world via The World Forgiveness Project Facebook page.  The PPOE organization plans that as the Forgiveness Concert ends, the ceremonial art structure is light on fire to collectively release forgiveness and suffering while some 1000 people form the words “Forgive All”.  States Robertson, “Until we forgive we can not achieve love.  This art structure and the image of people spelling the words “Forgive All” will be filmed aerially and then offered to the world as a way to ritually release suffering, establish a lasting forgiveness and ultimately, empower a deeper state of love.”  To find out more and support the World Forgiveness Project go to:

www.ProjectPeaceOnEarth.org and the connected Indiegogo campaign.

PPOE has a successful history of cultural peace initiatives in Palestine and the Middle East. On November 25^th 2011, PPOE produced an aerial picture was taken of nearly 1000 Palestinian refuge children forming the image of the Picasso Peace Dove and spelling out the words “Love All” plus the word for “love’ in Arabic just at the base of the Mount of Temptation in Jericho. Steve Robertson, CEO of Project Peace on Earth (PPOE) and its team, lead by international aerial artist John Quigley and United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) produced the inspirational event.  The Picasso Dove and Love All image was filmed and shot aerially to send out a message of love and hope to children and adults worldwide.  The event served as a part of a series of peace initiatives that included a prior medical mission 2010 and international peace concert  on Christmas Day, 2011.

The United Nations recently announced that the Project Peace on Earth photo from Jericho was one of only 49 images to represent “The United Nations: Seven Decades of Photography” at the world's largest photographic industry fair, Photokina, in September in Cologne, Germany.These photos were selected from the United Nations photo collection of 800,000 photographs dating back to the mid-1940s chronicling the history of the organization and its work.

In 2012, PPOE produced its second Peace Concert and Aerial art peace initiative from Bethlehem on Christmas Eve called “Free All.” The concert featured numerous world-famed musicians (from Jon Anderson – lead singer of Yes, to Grammy Winners Gary Nicholson and Joanne Shenandoah to famed Sufi Singer Sussan Deyhim to Serj Tankian, lead singer of System of A Down).  Each musician acknowledged the “Free All” theme of the concert  by stating on camera “Until we love our neighbors as ourselves, we can truly never be free”.

The 2012 PPOE concert was accompanied by its’ second and third aerial art image from Bethlehem.  One from Manger Square on Christmas Eve: a Peace Sign and the words “Love All” formed by local Palestinian Boy/Girl scout troops. The second, on New Years Eve 2012, from the separation wall and gate marking the original road into Bethlehem, located near famed Jacir Palace Hotel: Here, Palestinian Boy/Girl scouts formed the words “Free All” while in the background troop members placed their paint covered hands on the wall to create a permanent visual plea to the world, to bring the wall down.

Robertson explains the reason behind the focus on the Middle East “The Palestinian/Israeli conflict may well be the geopolitical/geospiritual linchpin for peace on our planet.  This region of the world represents the birth-place of the three major monotheistic religions.  It remains in turmoil and its people are suffering in the duality of “I have the right God and You Don’t”. We are quick to forget that all wars have been divisively fashioned around this intolerant ideology for Eons.  If we can help bring peace to this region of the world then peace can then be modeled anywhere. There is another way and only through love will we find it.”

During the first Project Peace On Earth (PPOE) initiative in 2010, Robertson lead a “Visions of Peace” medical mission into the Palestinian region where esteemed eye surgeon Dr. Paul Dougherty provided forty free cataract surgeries, in only two days, to elderly patients in Hebron.  The team was accompanied by former HBO Executive, Michael Garcia, who directed a documentary on the surgery process and captured interviews with people around the area about their vision for peace in the region.

The efforts of the PPOE organization are part of larger Middle East and Worldwide five-step peace process initiative. Towards this end, the PPOE team organizes inspirational music concerts, medical missions, art, dance events, social media and engagement activities to: 1) Reduce social tensions and re-enforce the possibility of peaceful relations.  2) Increase listening skills towards the promotion of inner peace and perceptional changes.  3) Foster the process of forgiveness and humanize dialog towards compassion.  4) Inspire the recognition of shared interests and commonalities of goodness. 5)  Increase empathy and communication skills through “walk in the other person’s shoes” experiences that promote social, political, spiritual, peace breakthroughs and actions.

Find out how you can help support Project Peace on Earth and its five-step worldwide peace initiative program by going to:  www.ProjectPeaceOnEarth.org

Contacts:  Steve Robertson, cell: 310-871-2965,

Steve@Project-PeaceOnEarth.com