Israel and christianity

Christian Zionists ignore reality of West Bank living, Palestinian Christian leaders say

Palestinian Christian leaders told CNN that US Christian Zionists ignore their experiences and fund West Bank settlements, while Mike Huckabee defended evangelical support for Israel.

|ByRUSADIKMAN, MAYA ZANGER-SHAMIR
Members of the clergy take part in the yearly Christmas procession led by Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem outside the Church of the Nativityon December 24, 2025 in Bethlehem, West Bank.
PASAGES STUDENTS attend a rally in Washington to show their support for Israel

Why 800 million Evangelical Christians stand with Israel in an age of rising antisemitism - opinion

At the recent Muni Expo in Tel Aviv, I participated in a panel discussion titled “Faith, Freedom, and the Future of the Free World.” The panel was organized by security expert Sagiv Asulin.

|ByGREG DENHAM
(FROM L): RABBI Yakov Nagen; Rafi Nahra, patriarchal vicar for Israel, based in Nazareth; and Rabbi Sarel Rosenblatt at the Vatican.

For Zion’s sake: An emerging Catholic voice for Israel - opinion

Catholic influencers' rhetoric has contributed to a climate in which hostility toward Israel is presented as the authentic Catholic position. Catholic Voices for Israel denounces this.

|ByPADDY MONAGHAN
Participants attend the annual Israel Day Parade, Sunday, May 31, 2026.

Faith, friendship, and the future of Israel advocacy - opinion

As extremists seek to divide Americans, antisemitism is rising openly, and support for Israel is increasingly politicized, genuine Jewish-Christian friendship is not merely symbolic; it is necessary

|ByMARK JENKINS, CHAIM STEINMETZ

Billy Graham, preacher to millions, dies at 99

According to his ministry, he preached to more people than anyone else in history, reaching hundreds of millions of people.

FEBRUARY 21, 2018ByREUTERS
Billy Graham speaks to thousands during his New York Crusade at Flushing Meadows Park in 2005.

MKs to honor U.S. anti-BDS legislator

“Israel is grateful to our Christian friends around the world for their passionate and unwavering support for the Jewish State and the Jewish People," said WJC-Israel chairman, Gad Ariely.

FEBRUARY 14, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators carrying a sign reading "DBS" (Divestment, Boycott, and Sanctions) march against US aid to Israel

The resurrection of the Jews and Mike Pence’s ‘New Israel’

The theology behind Christian Zionism, drawn out in this way, comes frightfully close to the theology behind Christian antisemitism or anti-Judaism from its earliest renditions.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018ByMEIRAV JONES
US Vice President Mike Pence touches the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City

Passages – ‘Birthright’ for Christian college students

"The majority come because they are committed Christians, they want to see the Bible come alive."

JANUARY 11, 2018ByHERB KEINON
American Christian college students in Israel as part of a program aimed at Christian students, called Passages, visit the holy site of the Mount Precipice in the Galilee town of Nazareth.

Record breaking 20% increase in Christmas pilgrims to Israel expected

Tourism Ministry: Over 3.5 million tourists in 2017 – 500,000 more than previous year.

DECEMBER 20, 2017ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
Eastern Orthodox pilgrims in Jerusalem

A cross to bare: tattoos and tradition in Jerusalem

Some of the shop's designs date back to Crusader times.

DECEMBER 20, 2017ByREUTERS
Tattoo artist Wassim Razzouk holds an ancient wooden tattoo stamp near a tattoo he recently completed on his customer's arm at his studio in Jerusalem's Old City

Comment: Trump has to do better than Cyrus

Cyrus couldn’t complete his declaration. How will Trump fare?

DECEMBER 14, 2017ByBENJAMIN GLATT
US President Donald Trump places a note in the stones of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 22, 2017.

Comment: Jerusalem is seeing the light

100 years to city's capture and Trump recognition means future keeps on getting brighter.

DECEMBER 11, 2017ByBENJAMIN GLATT
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence stands behind as U.S. President Donald Trump holds up the proclamation he signed that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will move its embassy there, during an address from the White House in Washington, U.S., December 6, 2017

Intense push by US evangelicals helped set stage for Trump's decision on Jerusalem

Conservative Christians have argued that formally recognizing Jerusalem was long overdue following a 1995 congressional mandate to move the embassy from Tel Aviv.

DECEMBER 7, 2017ByREUTERS
God Bless Trump banner in Jerusalem put up in honor of Trump's announcement

Comment: Jerusalem embassy move is a biblical issue

If the modern People of Israel are a continuation of the ancient biblical People of Israel, then shouldn’t the capital of the modern State of Israel be the same as the ancient Kingdom of Israel?

NOVEMBER 29, 2017ByBENJAMIN GLATT
A SIGN calls on US President Donald Trump to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.