Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb describes himself as a Palestinian, an Arab, a Christian and a Lutheran pastor. Confusing? He doesn't think so.

What he finds confusing is the situation in the Middle East. "Some say that Jews and Palestinians are very smart people. After decades of war, I can say that we are stupid!"

In this interview, Mitri Raheb tells Global X what happened to the Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem in 2002: "What I built over five years was destroyed in 11 hours by the Israeli Army."

Mitri Raheb went through the 1967 war, the 1973 war and the first Gulf War, when Scud missiles were sent by Iraq over Israel and he didn't have a mask to protect his two-months-old daughter. Then the 2002 siege of the Church of the Nativity. "That's 40 years of ongoing conflict. Will my grand-child have to live through another war???"

Mitri Raheb  is not optimistic for his daughter. He thinks that 10 years from now, "Palestine will look like a piece of Swiss cheese. Israel gets the cheese and Palestinians get the holes... An apartheid system with two different legal systems."

But there is hope. "Hope is what we do!"

Dans cet entretien avec Global X, Apollinaire Malumalu, prêtre diplômé de sciences politiques et ancien doyen de l’université, raconte ce qui s’est passé en 1998 quand l'armée de la République Démocratique du Congo a entouré son église et l’a emmené en cour martiale. Il a été finalement libéré quatre jours après, « grâce à la mobilisation de la population locale ».

Zainah Anwar, Executive Director of Sisters in Islam (SIS), works on the rights of Muslim women within the framework of Islam to end discrimination against women in the name of religion while upholding the principles of justice, equality, freedom and dignity within a democratic state.

In this short interview (four minutes), she tells Global X the story of a woman who spent over seven years out of an eight-year marriage to try to get a divorce from her violent husband, even though he had already remarried and had children with his new wife.

Zainah Anwar, an optimist, hopes that her current work will become irrelevant in the next 10 years. She knows that the laws that Malaysia has inherited from the British need to be adapted to the new realties that women are now facing. She is convinced that "justice will prevail, because the realities of our lives are totally different from when these laws were first conceptualized."

Jessica Montell, a mother of three young children, lives in Jerusalem where she works as executive director of B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. B'Tselem aims to change Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories and ensure that its government protects the human rights of residents there.

In this three-minute interview, Jessica Montell highlights the problem of movement, the rights to go from one place to another.

She tells the story of an 11-year old girl who had appendicitis in the middle of the night. Her father tried for two days to take her to the hospital, which was very close, but he wasn't able to receive the permission. She died.

That's when Jessica Montell realized that what should be a 15 minute ride can sometimes take hours or may not even happen.

As for the future... Her two boys will be 18 in 2020, and they will be drafted in the military.

Gérard Jean-Juste, a human rights activist and priest from Haiti, helped refugees fleeing persecution under the Duvalier regime in Miami in the '70s, then returned to Haiti in 1990 to become pastor in Tiplas Kazo.

As a result of his activism, he has been imprisoned for months at a time without access to due process of the law.

In this three-minute interview with Global X, Gérard Jean-Juste explains how he made the decision to start "une cantine" (a soup kitchen) in Haiti. A young boy, part of a family of ten children ("the father was dead, the mother was very ill") went to him to complain that he was hungry. "It was like a cry in my heart. I had to perform a miracle."

He did.