In the U.S., the idea elicited enthusiasm among conservative Christians who hoped that the Jews’ return to Israel would help ...

and the emphasis on Israel primarily as a state for the Jewish population.” Challenges that churches face in dealing with authorities include visas for clergy, permits for religious holidays ...

Photo by Dror Levi via Pikiwiki Israel The towering cupola of the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth stands over the cave that tradition holds to be the home of the Virgin Mary, where the Gospel ...

“The spiritual connections between your church, mine, many churches in America, Jewish congregations, to the state of Israel is because we ultimately are people of the book,” he said on March ...

IT IS HARD to believe today, but 18 months ago Israel was in grave peril. Surrounded by enemies, bickering with its main ally in Washington and reeling after Hamas’s attack caused the most ...

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, just two months old, has been shaky for some time. But that was thoroughly shattered by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza starting in the early hours of ...

A political label causes deep division in communities and churches in the Middle East. The word in the center of the trouble ...