Yad Le'Achim, an organization sponsored by the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, is going to court to halt construction of a congregational center for a growing church in southern Israel.

By LaTonya Taylor, Christianity Today, Nov 15, 2001

Israel has said it has ordered the halt to the construction of a mosque at a site near the Christian Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, a project that has angered the Vatican.

CNN, November 15, 2001

"Do not leave us Christians of the Holy Land alone," implored Fr Vicenzo Ianniello, secretary of the Catholic Custody of the Holy Land


Catholic News, Nov 13, 2001

The extraordinary story of Rita Younes, Director of Children's Programming for SAT-7 in which she tells how growing up the Lebanon civil war transformed her life and gave her a deep love for the children of the Arab World

By Dan Wooding, Assist Ministries

The BBC is also openning a new theological education center in Nazareth in cooperation and in conduction with the area churches.

Special for Come and See

A Palestinian American explains what is causing that "one-day Israeli tourism guides will tell their hapless visitors to Jerusalem and Bethlehem that Bethlehem was destroyed by the Arab World.
And..They'll probably get away with that, too"

By Ray Hanania, for Middle East News Online

More than 3,000 people attended services at Kasr El Dobara Evangelical Church in Cairo for five nights. Around 2000 people stood outside eagerly listening to the gospel message from Dr. Michael Youssef

Worthy News, November 2, 2001

SAT-7 celebrates five years of satellite broadcasting to the Christians of the Middle East and North Africa and looks to the future at Cyprus conference of partners and friends

By Dan Wooding, Assist Ministries

The speakers at a Cairo conference included Egypt's highest Muslim authority, Grand Mufti Nasr Farid Wasel, Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar Mohammad Sayed Tantawi and Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic Church, as well as a Vatican representative

Jordan Times, October 29