This week Palestine Report Online interviews Taybeh's Latin Parish Priest, Raed Abu Sahliyeh on the recent violence where men from a neighboring Muslim village torched houses and cars in the Christian village.

Palestine Report, Sep 8, 2005

Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef: Hurricane Katrina result of Bush?s support for disengagement, failure of New Orleans? black residents to study Torah. ?This is the punishment for what Bush did to Gush Katif,? rabbi says

Zvi Alush, YNET, Sep 7, 2005

It began as yet another "honor killing," still relatively common in the Arab world: a young Muslim woman was poisoned, allegedly by her family, over an extramarital affair. But in a twist, her lover was a Christian ? and 13 of his relatives' homes were burned by an angry mob, all Muslims from the dead woman's clan.

The woman's family insist they were simply dispensing tribal justice. But some Christians say they were targeted because of their religion, reflecting growing worries about a rise in sectarianism after decades of tolerance between Palestinians' Muslim majority and a dwindling Christian minority.

By LARA SUKHTIAN, Associated Press Sep 5, 2005

An interesting opinion about Israel's disengagment plan from Gaza - From a thelogogical point of view. Avraham Burg was speaker of Israel's Knesset in 1999-2003 and is a former chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel. He writes about the "right to the land" and whether this is conditional.

"The right to the Land of Israel is an option for the Jewish people, not an eternal, unbreakable promise. We don't get credit for the righteousness of our forefathers forever. If the beautiful houses we once had in part of the land are gone, it must be for the sin of pride"

Avraham Burg, YentNews, August 27, 2005

The Greek Orthodox Church has elected a new patriarch for Jerusalem to replace its former leader who was demoted after a controversial land deal.

The church's Holy Synod elected Metropolitan Theofilos following the ousting of his predecessor in May. Theofilos becomes the religious head of 100,000 Christians in the Holy Land, most of them Palestinian. Former Patriarch Irineos had refused to resign, despite being isolated by the world's Orthodox leaders.

By LAURIE COPANS, AP, August 22, 2005

The Israeli popular newspaper ?Yideot Ahronot? revelaed that Micha Bahooth, the Christian driver from Shefa-Amr came one day before the terrorist attack to the bus station in Shefa-Amr with a Jewish soldier by the name of Natan-Zada. Zada had a M-16 rifle, a black bag in his arm and a cap on his head. Bahooth told the instructor that the Jewish Soldier had fallen asleep in the bus and missed his station. The Christian driver offered the soldier a bottle of water before they drove him back to the central bus station in the Haifa bay.

The Christian driver was shot by Natan-Zada 24 hours after, together with 3 other passangers, in the first terrorist attack by a Jewish Terrorist against Israeli Arabs in the recent years

Special For "Come and See", Aug 8, 2005

One by one, mainline Protestant denominations with close ties to the Holy Land are taking controversial steps aimed at influencing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

On Friday, the Presbyterian Church USA reignited concerns when its investment committee named five US corporations it intends to push to reform their practices. The companies include ITT Industries United Technologies, Caterpillar, Motorola and Citigroup.

By Jane Lampman, The Christian Science Monitor, Aug 8, 2005

Reaching out to Christian supporters of Israel in Asia, a group of conservative Israeli thinkers and two parliamentarians from the Knesset's "Christian Allies Caucus" are traveling to South Korea next month for the second annual Jerusalem Summit Asia to shore up support for Israel against the increasingly global forces of Islamic fundamentalism.

The two day pro-Israel conference, which will be hosted by the President of South Korea and the Mayor of Seoul as well as the largest Christian Church in Asia, is expected to attract more than 2,000 people from over ten east Asian countries.

By ETGAR LEFKOVITS, The Jerusalem Post, July 27, 2005

Documents have recently come to light proving that the youngest son of the founder of the Chabad movement, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Russia, converted to Catholicism.

For 180 years, the conversion of Moshe Zalmanovitch (son of Zalman) has been difficult for Chabad hassidim and the hassidic world in general to accept. Now, it will be difficult to ignore.

By Haggai Hitron, Haaretz, July 22, 2005