Sally Azar

Sally Azar is a Palestinian pastor. She was ordained in January 2023, by the Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land">Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land">Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land in a ceremony at the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem, making her the first female Palestinian pastor in the Holy Land. Azar is the daughter of bishop Sani [Ibrahim Azar].

Family and education

Sally was born in Jerusalem in 1996, the middle child of Sani Ibrahim Azar, bishop of the Lutheran Church, and Nahla Azar. She completed her schooling at the Schmidt's Girls College in Jerusalem in 2014 and then studied theology at the Near East Theological Seminary in Beirut, earning her bachelor's degree in 2018. She earned her master's degree in theology from the University of Göttingen and Hermannsburg College in Germany.