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بيان بطاركة ورؤساء الكنائس في القدس بشأن الاعتداء الارهابي على كنيسة القديس جاورجيوس الأرثوذكسية في حمود-الكرك
Statement of the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem on the Attack on the Orthodox Church in Karak Jerusalem
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بطاركة ورؤساء الكنائس في القدس يدينون اعتداء المستوطنين على الطيبة ويطالبون بتحقيق العدالة وتوفير الحماية.
The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem Condemn Settler Attack on Taybeh and Call for Justice and Protection.
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A plague that can kill you in 24 hours is rapidly spreading in Russia right now but don't worry folks, Donald Trump eliminated the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, and Elon Musk defunded the CDC
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The humiliation of Christians in the Holy Land by Israel never ends. It's a prelude to ethnic cleansing: spit, insult, harass, attack, vandalize, and desecrate; strip away basic dignity. And when Christians leave, they will say "We didn't force them, they just left!"
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BREAKING: Israeli police arrested and assaulted Fr. Constantine Nassar, parish priest of the Orthodox Church in Jaffa, Israel.
The Orthodox Philanthropic Society in Jaffa condemned the assault and called for an immediate, independent investigation.
The Orthodox Philanthropic Society stated: “We affirm that silence in the face of such incidents is not an option. Respect for clergy, churches, and holy sites is a red line that must not be crossed.”
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"They grabbed the cross of the Bishop, put it on the floor, and smashed it!"
Every single day there is an anti-Christian incident in Jerusalem.
Every. Single. Day.
Absolutely!
Contemporary biblical scholarship, history, and science need to be taken-for-granted parts of the homily or sermon, not hidden from the congregation out of fear of scaring the horses. liturgy.co.nz/the-sermon-thi…
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📢 Press Release | “Within Your Gates”
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, will launch “Within Your Gates: The Forum for the Universal Vocation of Jerusalem” on September 7, 2026.
“It is to this mission that we must return.”
🔗 withinyourgates.org
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We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years.
But yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu.
A group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious.
We’re all ok now - and Aida is out of the hospital - but this is just one incident among an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank.
Here’s out story on yesterday’s attack on Sunday Today on @NBCNews.
#Israel #WestBank @TODAYshow
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Thank you, @JamesAALongman and @ABC, for taking a close look at the reality Christians are facing in Jerusalem.
Violent attacks against Christians surge in the Holy Land - ABC News - abcnews.com/video/136018793/
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The crime against history most don’t know about…
ISIS destroyed Assyrian archeology.
They burnt Aramaic manuscripts.
They blew up Old Testament history including the Tomb of Jonah.
They erased ancient Churches, driving Assyrians out of Nineveh.
How much was lost?
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STATEMENT: Israeli activist and interfaith scholar Yisca Harani, founder and director of the Religious Freedom Data Center (RFDC), a watchdog organisation that documents anti-Christian hate crimes in Israel, had this to say on the matter:
"In my view, this is precisely the important distinction that should be emphasized: the attacker’s psychiatric incompetence may explain why he is not held to ordinary criminal responsibility, but it does not prevent those around him from taking moral and communal responsibility for the harm that was caused.
In the case in Jaffa [attack on the St. Anthony of Padua Church], if the attacker’s family came to the church and asked for forgiveness on behalf of their son, that represents an important human gesture. They are not claiming that he is responsible for his actions in the legal or medical sense, but they are acknowledging that someone was harmed and that some form of reconciliation or repair is called for.
Therefore, the same question can certainly be raised regarding the attacker of the nun: if he, too, was found psychiatrically unfit, who among those around him acknowledges the harm that was caused? If he is connected to a particular organization or institution, it would be reasonable to expect that organization to disavow the act and express regret to the nun. And, if appropriate and possible, a gesture from his family could also be meaningful."
BREAKING: Israeli settler Yona Schreiber from the West Bank settlement of Peduel, who brutally assaulted a French Catholic nun in the Old City of Jerusalem, has been acquitted of the criminal charges against him.
The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court accepted the opinion of the district psychiatrist, who determined that Schreiber was in a psychotic state at the time and not responsible for his actions.
Schreiber was acquitted on those grounds and ordered to undergo psychiatric hospitalization.
Source: Israeli journalist Shlomi Heller, who originally reported the story on X.
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Imagine THE most respected Muslim imam in America saying this about Jews. The outrage would be uncontrollable
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Il rabbino capo dello Stato di Israele, David Yosef, ha affermato oggi che il popolo palestinese non esiste, non ha diritti, che è un bene che Gaza sia stata distrutta e che, con l’aiuto di Dio, presto tutta Gaza e la Cisgiordania saranno ebraiche. L’ebraismo viene utilizzato per giustificare e istigare al genocidio.
Non si tratta di un rabbino marginale: si tratta del rabbino più importante di Israele.
Oltre alla pulizia etnica, i crimini di guerra e alle barbarie del governo genocidario israeliano, questo incitamento allo sterminio fomenta l’antisemitismo nel mondo.
The Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel, Rabbi David Yosef said today that the Palestinian people do not exist, do not have rights, that it is good that Gaza was destroyed and that with the help of God, all of Gaza and the West Bank will be Jewish soon. The Jewish religion is being used as a tool of genocide. This is not a fringe rabbi. This is the most important rabbi in Israel.
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The number of serious incidents of “nationalistic crime” committed by extremist Jewish settlers in the West Bank surged by 63 percent during the first half of 2026 compared to the same period last year, the Kan public broadcaster reported Monday, citing security establishment figures.
Read more: timesofisrael.com/settler-te…
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Israeli settler terrorists expelled a Christian family from their home in the Christian village of Taybeh, occupied the house, and threatened to kill them if they returned—all under the protection of the Israeli army.
The Wall Street Journal article doesn’t even begin to capture the scale of the attacks against Christians in Israel and the occupied West Bank, or the daily reality faced by Palestinian Christian communities. It focuses on anti-Christian harassment inside Israel but leaves out the campaign of settler violence, land seizures, forced displacement, and attacks on Christian villages and towns such as Taybeh and Beit Sahour in the West Bank.
Spare us the hypocrisy.
The Wall Street Journal chose to write about Christians in Israel. The @WSJ took radical voices and extreme cases and turned it into the face of an entire country, while ignoring nearly 200,000 Christians whose lives tell the opposite story.
Over the past month, Christian Israelis have appeared on the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ social media channels. They spoke in their own words about their lives, their freedom, their success, their integration and their pride in being Israeli.
Not one of those Christians was included.
Instead, after The Washington Post, CNN and others, the Wall Street Journal has now repeated the same formula: find those most willing to condemn Israel, present them as so called “authentic” Christian voice, and reduce the Christian experience here to the disgraceful actions of a tiny extremist fringe.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where the Christian population is consistently growing. Christian citizens serve on the Supreme Court. They are doctors, professors, mayors, military officers, diplomats and ambassadors. Christian schools are among the strongest in the country. Churches operate freely. Christians participate at the highest levels of Israeli society.
What the WSJ published is a distortion of reality disguised as reporting. It is disingenuous, misleading and shameful.
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You are not a Christian living in Israel. You are the U.S. Ambassador to Israel. However often you have visited this country since 1973, you have never lived the daily reality of Jerusalem’s indigenous Christian communities. Do not equate your experience with ours.
On that note, how about replying to the oldest Christian presence in Jerusalem?
The @WSJ should have contacted me about Christians in Israel. I am one. Been coming here since 1973. Israel is ONLY country in region where Christian population has grown from 34K to almost 200K. @IsraelMFA just appointed a full Ambassador to the Christian world @GeorgeDeek . No other nation has done that. There are occasional but rare instances of thugs spitting at Christians in the Old City. It's repulsive & condemned by @IsraeliPM @IsraelPresident & @IsraelinUSA Happened recently at Armenian Church. @israelpolice arrested 6 ppl who did it. The perps didn't get away with it. Christians work, worship, & pray freely here. They serve in the @IDF as high-ranking officers. I go to church here every week w/o a problem. I visit with Palestinian Christians and Israeli Christians regularly. Occasional challenges? Sure. In NY, kippa-wearing Jews get spat on & viciously attacked. No one blames the entire US for behavior of a few criminals. I've been throughout the Middle East & know of no place where there is much religious diversity as there is in Israel. @Israel protects Christian Holy sites & Muslim Holy sites just as they do Jewish Holy sites. I hope @WSJ will do a bit more research in the future if they do a story about religious freedom in the Holy Land.
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"I ended up working as the assistant to Yves Congar, the French Dominican theologian. I met him twice a day. Often, it was just a matter of getting him coffee, talking to him, and asking what he needed, but I also got to know him extremely well and came to admire him greatly.
That whole generation of French Dominicans had a wonderful knowledge of the tradition but, at the same time, an openness of mind. There was Congar and there was also Marie-Dominique Chenu, Congar’s teacher. They called Chenu the grandfather of the Second Vatican Council.
Chenu was a wonderful, warm, and loving human being; at the kiss of peace, he would give you a hug and pull your hair. He was a marvelous example of what it meant to be alive in Christ."
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An interview that I never believed I would have to give, but I was left no choice.
Israel is guilty of “ethnic cleansing” in Jerusalem by forcing Palestinian families to leave homes they’ve lived in for generations, according to one of the country’s best-known lawyers.
Israeli authorities deny wrongdoing, telling Sky News the homes had no planning permission and will be replaced.
Sky's @AdamParsons investigates what is happening to the Silwan neighbourhood. Watch the full film on YouTube at the link in the comments ⬇️
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Israeli teenagers banged on the door of a church in Jerusalem and asked if there were Christians inside it. The boys said it was a religious duty, or mitzvah, to humiliate Christians by spitting at them. It was not an isolated incident. Our story: wsj.com/world/middle-east/sp…
