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Israel: Global day of Prayer in Nazareth brings Jews and Arabs
The evangelical convention in Israel in cooperation with HOPE Prayer ministry conducted the Global Day Of Prayer (GDOP) event on Sunday the 23rd of May for the 4th time this event takes place in the region, and this time at the Golden Crown hotel main hall in Nazareth.
This year was a unique year as the Arab Evangelicals felt burdened to invite the Jewish Messianic congregations for this event. As Rania Sayegh, Director of HOPE ministries put it: "We believe uniting in prayer of repentance for this land, will bring an open heaven over our region and release the river of healing!
Special For Come and See, August 25, 2010
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Posted on 25 August, 2010 (33 reads)
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Israel: Beersheva's Messianic Jews Await Trial Outcome
A pivotal court case takes place this week in a trial involving the rights of Messianic Jews in Israel.
A 2009 U.S. State Department report on religious rights in Israel found "increased press reporting and complaints from religious freedom activists indicated a corresponding increase in Yad L'achim and associated activism and a growing wider backlash against the presence of evangelical or Messianic Jewish congregations."
Chris Mitchell, CBN, April 12, 2010
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Posted on 12 April, 2010 (232 reads)
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Israel: Clinging to dream of Palestine village
On the first Saturday of every month, a priest comes to hold mass in the only permanent building left in the village, the blue-domed St Mary's church.
Here Iqritis get married and christen their children, and they bury dead in the little cemetery at the bottom of the hill.
On Sundays and public holidays, youngsters play football on the hilltop's only flat area, parents arrange picnics and old-timers reminisce or sit in silent thought.
By Martin Asser, 23 April 2008, BBC News, Iqrit, Israel
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Posted on 25 January, 2010 (333 reads)
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Other: Christian Arab construction baron dies
Hasib Sabbagh, 90, the billionaire christian Palestinian businessman who cofounded Consolidated Contractors Co International, one of the largest building companies in the Middle East, died Jan 12 in a hospital in Cleveland.
Hasib went from being a Palestinian refugee to being a citizen of the world. Born in 1920 in Tiberias, Palestine and graduated from the Arab College of Jerusalem in 1938 and in 1941 received a civil engineering degree from the American University of Beirut. Today, CCC has more than 140,000 employees and annual sales of about $5 billion.
Bloomberg, 17 January 2010
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Posted on 18 January, 2010 (291 reads)
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Top Stories: Palestinian Christian leaders issue a prayful call for an end to the occupation
A group of Palestinian Christians representing a variety of churches and church-related organizations have issued an animated and prayerful call for an end to occupation of Palestine by Israel.
The call, issued at a 11 December meeting in Bethlehem, comes at a time when many Palestinians believe they have reached a dead end. It raises questions to the international community, political leaders in the region, and the churches worldwide about their contribution to the Palestinian people's pursuit of freedom. Even in the midst of "our catastrophe" the call is described as a word of faith, hope and love.
www.wfn.org Web site, Dec 12, 2009
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Posted on 12 December, 2009 (429 reads)
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Israel: Ultra-Orthodox pressure stalling church, mosque at Ben-Gurion airport
Ultra-Orthodox political pressure has stalled the construction of a church and a mosque at Ben-Gurion International Airport for the past five years, aviation sources told Haaretz.
This came to light after several clergy members wrote to the Israel Airports Authority, requesting it allow for a church in Terminal 3.
Haaretz inquired, and learned that the plans for the new terminal included both a church and a mosque, but that they never were built.
Haaretz, Zohar Blumenkrantz Nov 22, 2009
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Posted on 23 November, 2009 (254 reads)
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Palestine: Pope meets Palestinian leader, discusses Middle East conflict
Pope Benedict XVI met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a private audience Oct. 8 at the Vatican.
During the meeting in the papal library, the two men discussed the problems in the Middle East and the need to find "a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the rights of all are recognized and respected," said a statement from the Vatican press office.
by Sarah Delaney, Catholic News Service, October 8, 2009
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Posted on 12 October, 2009 (278 reads)
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Israel: State-backed persecution of Messianic Jews
The methods of harassment and persecution used by the ultra-Orthodox organization Yad L'Achim against innocent, law-abiding Israeli citizens goes beyond the limits of legitimate activity by a civilian body and borders on unlawful. The organization, which has deployed a dense net of activists across the country and the world, is proud of "rescuing" Jewish men, women and children from the "claws" of other faiths and belief systems using coercive and dubious tactics.
Particularly serious is the fact - revealed by Yuval Azoulay in the October 2 edition of the Hebrew-language Haaretz Magazine - that behind the threats, the spreading of harmful rumors and harassment are not only the thugs of Yad L'Achim, but top Interior Ministry officials.
Editorial, Haaretz, October 6, 2009
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Posted on 06 October, 2009 (323 reads)
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Top Stories: After being attacked by Jewish extremists, Armenian clergy face expulsion
A group of Jewish extremists attacked on Sunday afternoon two young Armenians and destroyed a cross near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in East Jerusalem’s Old City.
Israeli settlers such as these have attacked for years members of the clergy in the Armenian Quarter. Today the Armenians who were assaulted Sunday are not being protected, but rather expelled.
Jerusalem / Maisa Abu Ghazaleh for PNN
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Posted on 19 September, 2009 (438 reads)
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Palestine: Catholic Patriarch Twal: Christians are Fleeing Holy City
One of the most senior Catholic churchman in the Middle East has predicted that Jerusalem's already diminished Christian population will shrink within seven years unless urgent steps are taken to reverse their exodus.
Patriarch Fouad Twal, who was invited to Britain by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the charity that helps suffering Christians, said the population in the holiest city for Christians would fall from 10,000 today to little more than 5,000 in 2016.
By Ed West, Catholic Herlad (UK), Sep 18, 2009
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Posted on 19 September, 2009 (275 reads)
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