Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu has accepted the role of patron of Sabeel International, the Palestinian Christian liberation organization, in its outreach and development work around the world.

Episcopalians: News Briefs, June 18, 2003

Ancient limestone box linked to Jesus displays dubious carved inscription. A committee of archeologists and geologists commissioned by the Israeli Antiquities Authority is set to declare that the inscription on the James ossuary is fake.

By JAMES ADAMS, From Tuesday's Globe and Mail

Iraqi Christians ask that Christians around the world pray that missionaries to Iraq be sensitive to the local situation and work with the local believers wherever possible

ASSIST News Service, June 5, 2003

Nearly all of the approximately 100 Messianic congregations in Israel are adding members, and many are new believers, sources in Israel say. Israel had an estimated 7,000 Messianic Jews in 2000, up from 250 in 1967, according to Operation World. There are about 332,000 followers of Christ among the world's 15 million Jews.

Religion Journal, June 1, 2003

A Greek Catholic priest from Nazareth felt the need to lead a group of Arabs and Jews to Auschwitz to understand each other.

He says:"We can't understand our conflict without understanding the history of the Jewish people, the Holocaust, and how it lives today," he said. "We cannot make peace until we understand the pain."

The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 28, 2003

Canadian peace volunteer who has been stationed in Hebron with Christian Peacemaker teams,was saved from deportation by a last-minute court injunction issued by the Israeli Supreme Court.

Canoe News, Canada, May 25, 2003

A Christian Palestinian businessman :"If we don't protect these 'living stones', there will be a time when people come here and all they see are the dead stones of the biblical ruins. We need American support to keep believers here..."

World Magazine, May 25, 2003

In his final official address to the church, the Rev. Fahed Abu-Akel used distinctly spiritual language in recounting his eventful year as moderator of the 214th General Assembly.

Worldwide Faith News, May 25, 2003

When worshippers of the Brethren Church in Nazareth arrived to the Bible Study meeting at Friday, they discovered four Molotov cocktails ("burning bottles") thrown at the exterior walls and roof of the building.

The Brethren Church meets in the upper floor of the building were Emmaus Bible School is located. This is related to the outrage between Muslims in Israel over a book that Emmuas Bible School had, which ridicules Islam's prophet Mohammad.
Earlier in the week, Emmaus Bible school issued an apology and clarification letter

Nazareth, Special for Come and See, May 12, 2003