1881’de Chicago’dan dindar bir H\u0131ristiyan \u00e7ifti olan Horatio ve Anna Spafford, bir grup takip\u00e7iyle birlikte Kutsal Topraklara bir yolculu\u011fa \u00e7\u0131kt\u0131. Dini hizmete adanm\u0131\u015f bir ya\u015fam aray\u0131\u015f\u0131nda, Eski \u015eehir surlar\u0131n\u0131n d\u0131\u015f\u0131nda g\u00f6rkemli bir villada ya\u015fayan Amerikal\u0131 gurbet\u00e7ilerden olu\u015fan bir kom\u00fcn olan Kud\u00fcs’teki Amerikan Kolonisi’ni kurdular.<\/p>\n\n
Amerikan Kolonisi h\u0131zla Kud\u00fcs’te insani yard\u0131m \u00e7al\u0131\u015fmalar\u0131n\u0131n bir merkezi haline geldi. Kolonistler t\u0131p klinikleri, yetimhaneler, a\u015fevi mutfaklar\u0131, okullar ve bir \u00e7ocuk hastanesi kurdular. Dini veya etnik k\u00f6kenlerine bak\u0131lmaks\u0131z\u0131n hastalara, yetimlere ve yoksullara yorulmadan bak\u0131m sa\u011flad\u0131lar.<\/p>\n\n
Kud\u00fcs’\u00fcn \u00e7alkant\u0131l\u0131 tarihi boyunca Amerikan Kolonisi tarafs\u0131z bir k\u00f6\u015fe ve bir bar\u0131\u015f vahas\u0131 i\u015flevi g\u00f6rd\u00fc. I. D\u00fcnya Sava\u015f\u0131 s\u0131ras\u0131nda Anna Spafford, beyaz bir bayrakla Osmanl\u0131 belediye ba\u015fkan\u0131n\u0131n teslim olmas\u0131n\u0131 sa\u011flayarak \u015fehrin daha fazla kan d\u00f6k\u00fclmesinden kurtulmas\u0131n\u0131 sa\u011flad\u0131. 1992’de otelin bah\u00e7e avlusunun yan\u0131ndaki bir odada yap\u0131lan gizli g\u00f6r\u00fc\u015fmeler, 1993’te \u0130srail ile Filistin Kurtulu\u015f \u00d6rg\u00fct\u00fc aras\u0131ndaki tarihi bar\u0131\u015f anla\u015fmas\u0131na yol a\u00e7t\u0131.<\/p>\n\n
\u00dc\u00e7 ku\u015fak Spafford kad\u0131n\u0131, Amerikan Kolonisini ve onun insani yard\u0131m misyonunu s\u00fcrd\u00fcrd\u00fc. Kurucu anaerkil Anna Spafford, yoksullar\u0131n ve ezilenlerin yorulmaz bir savunucusuydu. K\u0131z\u0131 Bertha ve torunu Rose onun miras\u0131n\u0131 s\u00fcrd\u00fcrd\u00fc, Koloninin hizmetlerini geni\u015fletti ve bar\u0131\u015f s\u00fcrecinde kilit roller \u00fcstlendi.<\/p>\n\n
1960’larda Koloninin villas\u0131, American Colony Hotel’e d\u00f6n\u00fc\u015ft\u00fcr\u00fcld\u00fc. Otel, Kud\u00fcs’\u00fcn kalbinde bir dinlenme yeri arayan hac\u0131lara, politikac\u0131lara ve gezginlere y\u00f6nelik \u00fcnl\u00fc bir s\u0131\u011f\u0131nak haline geldi. Zarif odalar\u0131, yemye\u015fil bah\u00e7eleri ve tarihi ambiyans\u0131, onu Kutsal \u015eehir’de bir bar\u0131\u015f ve misafirperverlik sembol\u00fc haline getirdi.<\/p>\n\n
Amerikan Kolonisi, insani yard\u0131m \u00e7al\u0131\u015fmalar\u0131 ve bar\u0131\u015fa yapt\u0131\u011f\u0131 katk\u0131lar nedeniyle uluslararas\u0131 alanda tan\u0131nmaktad\u0131r. 1995 y\u0131l\u0131nda, “\u00e7at\u0131\u015fma b\u00f6lgelerinde insani hizmet ve bar\u0131\u015f sa\u011flama konusundaki ola\u011fan\u00fcst\u00fc ve \u00f6nc\u00fc \u00e7al\u0131\u015fmalar\u0131” nedeniyle “Alternatif Nobel \u00d6d\u00fcl\u00fc” olarak da bilinen Right Livelihood \u00d6d\u00fcl\u00fc’ne lay\u0131k g\u00f6r\u00fcld\u00fc.<\/p>\n\n
Bir as\u0131rdan fazla bir s\u00fcredir Kud\u00fcs’teki Amerikan Kolonisi, \u015fefkatin, hizmetin ve bar\u0131\u015f in\u015fas\u0131n\u0131n g\u00fcc\u00fcne bir kan\u0131t olarak durmaktad\u0131r. \u0130nsani yard\u0131m \u00e7abalar\u0131 say\u0131s\u0131z hayata dokundu ve bar\u0131\u015f vahas\u0131, \u00e7at\u0131\u015fman\u0131n ortas\u0131nda bir s\u0131\u011f\u0131nak sa\u011flad\u0131. Spafford ailesi ve Amerikan Kolonisi’nin miras\u0131, Kutsal Topraklarda umut ve uzla\u015fmay\u0131 ate\u015flemeye devam ediyor.<\/p>\n\n
Kud\u00fcs’teki Amerikan Kolonisi: Bir As\u0131r Hizmet ve Bar\u0131\u015f K\u00f6kenler ve Kurulu\u015f 1881’de Chicago’dan dindar bir H\u0131ristiyan \u00e7ifti olan Horatio ve Anna Spafford, bir grup takip\u00e7iyle birlikte Kutsal Topraklara bir yolculu\u011fa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8265],"tags":[8261,2623,8264,8262,8263,6417,27],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-of-peacemaking","tag-american-colony","tag-peace","tag-christian-commune","tag-holy-land","tag-humanitarian-work","tag-jerusalem","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24340,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions\/24340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}