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Huckabee critcizes Israel police over Pizzaballa's Palm Sunday incident

"The action today by the Israel National Police ... is an unfortunate overreach already having major repercussions around the world," Huckabee wrote in a social media post.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee attends the lobby for Israel–United States relations at the Knesset, Israel's Parliament in Jerusalem, February 25, 2026.
LATIN PATRIARCH of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, shakes hands with a person, as he passes through an Israeli checkpoint to attend Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, in the West Bank, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025.

Police reach agreement with Latin Patriarchate to allow limited groups in Church of Holy Sepulchre

Illustrative image of former prime minister Naftali Bennett and Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson

Bennett: 'Chickens***' Tucker Carlson landed in Israel, faked harassment, 'whined,' and left

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, attends a Christmas service, at the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, in the West Bank, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025.

ICEJ challenges church leaders’ claim that Christian Zionism is 'damaging ideology'


Christian media leaders urge believers: Seek accurate reporting on Israel

At NRB, Holy Land tourism is encouraged

 Breakfast honoring Israel at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville 2022

Israel freezes plan to expand Jerusalem national park on church land

While the Mount of Olives rising east of the Old City includes sites that are holy to three monotheistic faiths, its slope is especially important for various Christian denominations.

 THE KIDRON Valley showing the Ottoman walls of the Old City.

Five things to know about Israel’s Christian population

No. 1: 90% of Arab Christians in Israel are Greek Catholic or Greek Orthodox

 Christian soldiers celebrate the New Year in Nof HaGalil

What are Israel's Christian communities afraid of?

There is a feeling that they are not important enough to come higher in Israeli priorities.

 GREEK ORTHODOX Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III leads the ‘Washing of the Feet’ ceremony outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City in April.

Celebrating Christmas with anti-Israel invective

Can Christian leaders celebrate the incarnation of Jesus Christ without dumping on the Jewish state, or is anti-Zionism a central element of their Christmas celebrations?

 CHRISTMAS SYMBOLS are on display near Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City last month.

Archbishop of Canterbury falls for anti-Israel lies - comment

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby claimed Christians were being 'systematically' driven out of the Holy Land.

A large Christmas tree adorns the promenade at the Notre Dame Center outside Jerusalem’s Old City.

Businesses suffer in the Christian Quarter with downturn of tourism

Domestic and foreign tourism has suffered during the coronavirus period, including the Old City of Jerusalem's Christian Quarter.

 IBRAHIM ABU SEIR in front of La Patisserie: Excluded.

How did missionary TV come to Israel?

For many on the Israeli side, this was seen as a “strictly business.”

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Witnessing the growing rise of antisemitism in the US as a non Jew

Although I learned much about the subject during my years in Jerusalem, after I returned to the US in 2017 the encroachment of Jew-hatred has at times seemed too close for comfort.

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43,000 types of Christianity...

... and what they mean for Israel and the Jewish community.

The Church of Mary Magdalene in the Old City