Palestinian Christians facing an existential threat
Chris Doyle December 24, 2024 Every year, at Christmas, much of the world turns its eyes to Bethlehem and the world of two millennia ago. Images of the baby Jesus […]
International support for Palestinian Christians in short supply
RAY HANANIA May 01, 2024 Not enough is being done to support Christians in the Arab world, particularly those who are under siege by Israel. This topic only comes up […]
Mount of Olives becomes latest target in fight for control of Jerusalem
The Mount of Olives’ summit has served as a pilgrimage destination for Christians, Muslims and Jews for millennia. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian Israeli settler movement is making life harder for […]
Jerusalem churches in crosshairs of escalating extremist attacks: Churches Council
January 7, 2023 at 9:29 am | Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine Caretakers of the Protestant cemetery inspect vandalised graves on Mount Zion outside Jerusalem’s Old City on January 4, 2023. [Photo […]
Occupied Bethlehem has little to celebrate
CHRIS DOYLE December 26, 2022 Short Url Once again, a huge segment of the world is singing and reading about Bethlehem, that little town that sits silently in the holy […]
Jerusalem’s Christians debunk attempts to deny their reality
DAOUD KUTTAB October 05, 2022 Short Url The Israeli narrative of it being a benevolent, liberal democratic country that respects the rights of all people under its domain, including their […]
Palestinian Christians release “A Dossier on Israeli Apartheid”
Palestinian Christians join international human rights organizations and a growing number of church bodies in naming Israel as an apartheid state. BY JEFF WRIGHT JULY 7, 2022 Repeated cries from Palestinian Christians […]
Senior Jerusalem Catholics condemn behavior of Israeli police at journalist’s funeral
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa speaks to journalists concerning the violence surrounding the funeral of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, Jerusalem, May 16, 2022. (Reuters) Short Url […]
Israel’s Jerusalem plans boost settlers at Christians’ expense
CHRIS DOYLE March 14, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/5dh2a Messing around with the delicate relationships that hold together the varying ethnic and religious communities in Jerusalem is playing with dynamite. Even […]
Christians are under threat in the cradle of their faith
Jan 08,2022 – JORDAN TIMES By the office of His Beatitude Theophilos III, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, who contributed this article to The Jordan Times Having served as a priest […]
Attack on Jerusalem church no isolated incident
Author DAOUD KUTTAB December 10, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/psbte Franciscan Father Ibrahim Faltas inspects the damage after a man tried to set fire to Gethsemane Church in Jerusalem, Dec. 4, […]
Trump and Israeli annexation: The Christian Zionism connection
Azad Essa , Aaya Al-Shamahi 12 August 2020 16:46 Tarek Abuata, a Palestinian Christian and executive director of Friends of Sabeel North America, explains how Christian Zionism is driving pro-Israel attitudes […]
‘The last generation’: How occupation is driving Christians out of Palestine
By Peter Oborne 24 December 2019 – MIDDLEEASTEYE Pilgrims flock to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas, but Palestinian Christians fear for the survival of their own community in the […]
King of Jordan says safeguarding rights of Muslims, Christians in Jerusalem a Hashemite duty
SOURCE: JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday received church leaders in Jordan and Jerusalem, and leading Jordanian Christian figures and representatives of Islamic and awqaf […]
The ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Christians that nobody is talking about
Oct 29,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for […]
King of Jordan tells Palestinians ‘we stand with you’, Jordan’s position ‘will not change’
Jerusalem awqaf, church councils, Jerusalemites and Arab Israelis stress commitment to Hashemite Custodianship By JT – Jun 04,2019 -JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday reaffirmed […]
Tourism in Bethlehem booming as Christmas nears
(Dec 10, 2018 10:10AM ET) By Rami Ayyub BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) – Bethlehem is enjoying its busiest Christmas season on record, the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism said on Monday, […]
Holy Land churches cry foul over Israeli legislation on lands
By AFP – Jun 18,2018 – JORDAN TIMES A Christian woman prays by the closed door of the main entrance of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old […]
Israel denies Easter travel permits to Gaza Christians
On Good Friday, hundreds of pilgrims retraced the last journey of Jesus in the Old City of Jerusalem. Many Christians in Gaza, however, are still waiting for permits to take […]
Lest we forget — Christian Palestinians of Jerusalem
Jul 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hazem Nusseibeh In my memoirs “Jerusalemites… a Living Memory”, I made reference to Talbiya quarter in West Jerusalem, which in the 1930s and 1940s of the last century, was the most fashionable Christian Arab quarter, outside the Old City, along with Qatamon and upper and […]