The Christmas tree at Manger Square near the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, West Bank, Dec. 3, 2022.[/caption]
“Shame on you,” says Father Jacques Noble-Abed of Taybeh, in the occupied West Bank, referring to US evangelicals who support Israel. “Because this is not the teaching of Jesus in the Gospel.”
“They wanted me to sign a statement admitting that I was a dangerous person. I didn’t sign it, and I say that all of us, peoples and governments of democratic nations, should no longer sign anything with Israel.”
In a rare shift, U.S. evangelical leaders, GOP lawmakers, and right-wing influencers—led by Ambassador Mike Huckabee—are openly criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank. One conservative pundit stated, “The Israeli government is really screwing up. This horrific war must come to a complete end.”
Appeals and negotiations won’t make Israel stop starving Gaza
A new documentary film reveals the identity of the Israeli soldier who killed the Christian American citizen, as well as a shocking US cover-up. Exclusive interviews with former Biden officials reveal that in order to protect its relationship with Israel, the administration “failed” Shireen Abu Akleh.
He spoke repeatedly against the ongoing genocide & destruction of our people and was attacked for this by the Zionist movement. He kept touch with the church in Gaza regularly even from his hospital bed. He cared for people regardless of their religion and made peace a key feature of his tenure.
Israel’s cultural and political atmosphere can now justify, or at a minimum, tolerate Jewish aggression against Christians. The US doesn’t seem to care.
Palestinians trying to access Christianity’s holiest sites in the Old City of Jerusalem this Easter face restrictions and hostility from Israel
A Christian American reports in American Conservative magazine that Netanyahu is testing the 47th president with a fresh round of illegal actions in the West Bank, including vicious assaults on Christians. Many Palestinian Americans voted for Trump as a hoped-for peacemaker…
As Israel’s genocide in Gaza rolls on, the territory’s tiny Christian community is threatened as never before.