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Breaking News Roman Jews Show Support for Nigerian Schoolgirls, Persecuted Christians
The lights illuminating the Colosseum in Rome will be switched off as a show of support for persecuted Christians around the world and the kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigeria. The initiative on Thursday is being co-sponsored by the Rome Jewish community and the Community of Sant’ Egidio, a Roman Catholic association that fosters interfaith dialogue, with…
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Breaking News Israel Steps Up Effort To Recruit Christian Arabs for Army
Israel said on Tuesday it was stepping up efforts to encourage military enlistment by Christian Arab citizens, a community long closer to the larger Muslim minority in identifying with the Palestinians. Israel’s Christian Arabs number about 160,000, some two percent of the Jewish state’s eight million people, and the expected number of conscripts – now…
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Israel News Jewish Groups Resume Dialogue With Churches After Israel Aid Schism
“We had the feeling of the Holy One being at work through us,” said the Rev. Mark Hanson, a top Lutheran leader, as he reflected on a recent meeting between Jewish and Christian leaders. That might sound a bit over the top, especially since the cleric was describing a meeting of Christian and Jewish organizational…
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Breaking News Jewish Extremist Vandals Attack Christian Village
The tires of 40 cars and trucks were slashed and a hateful message was sprayed on a wall in a Christian village near Safed. The vandalism was discovered Thursday morning. It is the second attack apparently aimed at Christians in one week. The message sprayed on a wall of the Jish village read “Only goyim…
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Breaking News Extremist Jews Vandalize Israeli Catholic Convent in Price Tag Outrage
A Catholic monastery near Beit Shemesh was vandalized with anti-American and anti-Christian epithets. “America is Nazi Germany” and “Price Tag — Peace Agreement,” as well as “Jesus is a monkey” and “Mary is a cow,” were spray painted on the walls of the monastery. The tires of four vehicles also were slashed. The monastery is…
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Breaking News Jewish Groups Resume Dialogue With Churches After 2012 Israel Aid Letter Spat
Leaders of national Jewish groups resumed a dialogue with mainline Christian churches ruptured by a call in 2012 by some Christian leaders to consider cutting U.S. assistance to Israel. “We affirm a strong commitment to continue working together on domestic and international issues of common concern,” said the joint statement issued by the groups Thursday…
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Israel News Evangelical Christians Rally Against Occupation as Palestinians Gain Support
On a bleak and rainy morning, the Israeli military checkpoint in Bethlehem looked especially depressing: rain-soaked concrete walls, a loose tin roof clattering in the wind, and Palestinian workers running across wet gravel into a cage-like narrow corridor to cross into Israel. That’s the sight that greeted two dozen Christian visitors to the Israeli-occupied West…
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Breaking News Air Force Cadets Complain Over ‘Christ Lives in Me’ Posted on Door
Controversy has erupted this week over the posting of Christian verses on the door of a cadet’s room at the Air Force Academy — with some calling the move an attempt to bully non-Christians and a violation of the separation of church and state. More than 30 cadets complained after seeing the Bible verse, which…
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