Arabic Christian Satellite channel reaches millions of viewers from Morroco to Iran, in six different time zones

By Dan Wooding, ASSIST NEWS SERVICE,May 24, 2001

The high priest of the Samaritan community that is known to Christians through the Parable of the Good Samaritan, dies at age 79.
The Samaritans number only about 650 people today

AP Wednesday May 23 6:03 AM ET

Moslems loose patience waiting for goverment approval for disputed mosque construction, to be built near the church of Annunciation in Nazareth

Based on Jalal Bana, Haaretz, May 14, 2001

Village local in Maloula that lies only 65 kilometres north of Damascus helps German academic record Aramaic - the language Jesus spoke

Philip Sherwell, The Sunday Telegraph,8th May 2001

The Bible College in Jesus' birth town was bombarded by Israeli troops during the days following Easter

Special for Come and See

Cash-strapped churches struggle to help Intifada's Christian victims The tourism slump left thousands jobless with nowhere to turn

By Darren Fisher, Haaretz, 9-th March, 2001