According to Rami Levi, Israel's tourism commissioner for North America: "Evangelicals are very supportive of Israel. They see all of Israel -- not just our tourism, but our economy, our national interest -- as a love. It's their spiritual belief that that is the way it has to be. We can always rely on them."

By Mark O'Keefe, Religion News Service, January 26, 2002

According to Fr. Pierrebatista Pizzabala of the Franciscan Order: "There are no direct threats, but Christian leaders, who are more concerned about their communities than about their own safety, are frightened"

By Haim Shapiro, Jerusalem Post, Jan 21, 2002

Israel's domestic security service has recommended that Jews be allowed to resume visiting the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City

By Lee Hockstader, Washington Post Foreign Service, Monday, January 21, 2002

The people of Afghanistan are seeing the demonstration of Christ's love firsthand as Christian relief agencies are helping the needy.

Mission Network News, January 22nd 2002

According to David Jaeger, member of the board of Custodia, the Vatican body responsible for the holy sites in the Holy Land, the decision-makers in Jerusalem should learn the lesson to give more respect to the churches in Israel and that things should not be done in secret.

Akiva Eldar, People and Politics, Haaretz, Jan 22, 2002

Moshe Arens, Israeli Former Defense Minister (Likud) writes how former Israeli goverments dealt with the Nazareth Mosque issue, and how this one should

By Moshe Arens, Haaretz, Jan 22, 2002

Most residents of Nazareth are simply fed up with the issue. The gaping hole where construction was halted is like an open wound, and what most residents say they want above all is to heal it.

By Leora Eren Frucht, Jerusalem Post, Jan 20, 2002

Jewish Chief Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi-Doron and Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior to join Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi at the conference, pulled together by the outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey. Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem to attend

By The Associated Press, Jan 20, 2002

The protestors chanted anti-government slogans and condemned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, calling him "the enemy of God." for his decision to stop work at the Shihab al-Din mosque, which has been under construction for several weeks at a site very near the Christian Basilica of the Annunciation.

By Jalal Banna and Ori Nir, Ha'aretz Correspondents, Jan 19, 2002