Mansour’s English-language book is a powerful testimony of the difficulties and challenges that the Arab Palestinian population faced within a newly established state that clearly favored its Jewish Zionist citizens.

The more Christian view, far from blind loyalty to Israel, is recognizing the Palestinians’ humanity, says Kirsten Powers.

The students at Nazareth Baptist School were thinking of others this past Christmas, just as God in Christ was thinking of all humanity when he sent his only son to be the Savior of the World

By Alex E & Brenda K. Awad - Shepherd Society-Bethlehem Bible College

In 2011 the number of Arab Christian students eligible for a high-school diploma stood at 64% in comparison to only 48% among Muslim children, 55% among Druze and 59% in the Jewish education system in general

One of the teachers wrote: "I also have a son in the same age of the children that passed
away. My school, my family, and my Church are praying for you. I want you to remember that Jesus died for us and He shares your sorrow"

For some, taking sides is for granted and they are unaware of the tragic consequences their zeal to support the Jews has on the Christians inhabiting the holy land

Controversy over the Kirk's £13 million luxury hotel in the Holy Land

By Angus Roxburgh in Tiberias, Israel

The Ministry of Education does not release comparative information between the schools but this percentage is no doubt one of the highest in the whole country

For more than a year, I have repeatedly visited the office of the Christian Affairs Department at the Israeli Ministry of Religious Affairs in Jerusalem to seek a clergy visa for Rev. Jeff Hoover. Jeff is a U.S. citizen from Raleigh, North Carolina. Our international congregation in East Jerusalem called Rev. Hoover to come to Jerusalem to serve as an assistant pastor, since I am approaching retirement.


Alex Awad, Pastor, East Jerusalem Baptist Church

154,000 Christians live today in the Land of Israel. 80% are Arabs, and they live in the north of the country, and their level of education is high. The data comes from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics