The statement calls for a renunciation of violence in all its forms, both military, political, social, psychological and spiritual, and condemns both the recent spate of attacks on citizens and use of force to maintain the occupation.

Maurice Gerges is the most influential evangelist in the Arab world for the last 60 years and was even referred to by some as "the Billy Graham of the Middle East". He passed away on March 26 at the age of 85

The Scenic Drive Baptist Church could not survive its dwindling congregation and disbanded. The new church is the Arabic Baptist Church in Tennessee.

Jesus, Christmas, and the Arab Spring-By Botrus Mansour, Christianity Today 23rd December 2011

Karen Jones writes about Yohanna Katanacho for Bible Study Magazine published by Logos Bible Software. She writers about his spiritual pilgrimage as a Palestinian born on the eve of the 1967 war, learning how to love his enemies and hoping to find a framework for interreligious dialogue as well as presenting the Christian faith to Jews and Muslims in a non-threatening way.

Karen Jones, Special For Come and See

After serving as a pastor in few Baptist churches in Britain for the last 35 years, Rev. Philip Hill moved with his wife Angela to Nazareth, Israel. Recently he became the pastor of the Local Baptist Church in Nazareth.Rev. Hill writes about his experience celebrating Christmas in Israel.Special for Come and See, December 24, 2010

End times theology that equates the modern state of Israel with the Israel of biblical prophecy has caused some evangelical Christians to let eschatology trump ethics when it comes to the Middle East, a Palestinian-American Christian told a general session at the Global Faith Forum at NorthWood Church in Keller.

Henry Mikhail, a Jerusalem-born Arab who now serves on a peace and justice work group of the Reformed Church of America’s General Synod Council, rejected the notion that support for the Palestinian people makes a person anti-Israel.

By Ken Camp, Managing Editor, The Baptist Standard, November 15, 2010

Martin Clay writes his personal experience attending "Christ at the Checkpoint" conference of bringing together Palestinian and international Evangelical Christians concerning the theology of the land.

"The conference, open to local residents as well as nationals and internationals, as well as focusing on the shadow cast over the West Bank and all Palestinians by the damaging ethnic implications of the beliefs of Christian Zionism, was a forum for worship in English and Arabic,  for investigating issues such as the principles of non-violence (non-violence we learned is not the same as peace but a technique for activism), and the position of Palestinian Christians within Israel, and for visits to the Checkpoint to give delegates an insight into what local people faced at 6 am in the morning".

Martin Clay, Special For Come and See, March 17, 2010

Across the Middle East, where Christianity was born and its followers once made up a sizable portion of the population, Christians are now tiny minorities. Driven by different factors – the search for better opportunities abroad, their status as targets of Iraq's sectarian conflict, a low birth rate, and discrimination – the trend largely holds true across a region where Christians have maintained a presence for two millenniums.

The Christian Science Monitor, Feb 5, 2010

For almost 150 years "Nazareth Trust" have been 'healing in the name of Jesus' in Nazareth. What started by Dr. Vertan as a humble clinic with 4 beds has grown to become Nazareth's General Hospital sitting high on 25 acres of Nazarene hillside they have owned since 1906

Listen to this Audio from the BBC, from Nazareth, recorded before Christmas 2009

BBC World Radio, December 10, 2009