Evangelical leader decries mainstream church efforts to malign Israel

“The big churches are using a very loud voice to malign, fabricate and twist the story," says Rev. Peter Fast.

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Rev. Peter Fast, CEO-elect of Bridges for Peace, and his predecessor, Rev. Rebecca Brimmer, in Jerusalem, June 13, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Bridges for Peace.

(June 15, 2023 / JNS) A concerted effort is underway by some mainstream churches to convince evangelical Christians to be less supportive of Israel, the incoming head of an evangelical organization headquartered in Jerusalem says.

Rev. Peter Fast, CEO-elect of Bridges for Peace, spoke in an interview with JNS on Tuesday.

The remarks come two months after the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem lambasted Israeli restrictions on the number of worshippers allowed into the Church

American-Jewish investor buys Greek Orthodox Patriarchate land in Jerusalem

About 1,000 housing units and the five-star Inbal Hotel, stand on the land in the neighborhoods of Talbiyeh, Rehavia and Nayot.

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View of the Knesset (foreground), were the Israeli parliament residese,the tall buildings in the back are called The Wolfson Towers and behind them are the neighborhoods of Rehavia, Shaarei Chesed and the downtown.   (photo credit: NATI SHOHAT/FLASH90)

Gary Barnett, an American-Jewish land developer, has dived headfirst into the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate land controversy in Jerusalem by purchasing the land for NIS 750 million ($220 m.) from its current owners, Nayot Komemiyut Investments.

Old City hotelier facing eviction: ‘Biden, give Christians 10 minutes of your visit’

Abu el-Walid Dajani, whose family has leased Imperial Hotel since 1949, says ‘Palestinian heritage endangered’; new leaseholder Ateret Cohanim: ‘Jews entitled to live everywhere’.

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The Imperial Hotel (left) and the Petra Hostel (right), located between Jaffa Gate and the Arab market in Jerusalem's Old City, June 21, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

The manager of an Old City hotel whose lease has been bought by a right-wing Jewish organization wants US President Joe Biden to give church leaders “just ten minutes” when he visits Israel next month to hear their concerns and reassure them that Christianity will be safe in Jerusalem.

Abu el-Walid Dajani, 78, runs the 44-room Imperial Hotel, built just inside the Jaffa Gate in time to accommodate officers of Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm, who paid a state visit to the city in 1898.

Israel and the Holy See

Gilded iconostasis in the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin, Jerusalem, image via Wikipedia

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,137, August 27, 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: For many years, the Jewish people of Israel have been effectively paying the taxes of the Catholic Church and other churches in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel. It is high time not only for the churches to start paying the taxes they owe the State of Israel but to restore the vast troves of property looted from the Jewish people and stolen from their heritage by the church over a period of centuries.

Pope Paul VI arrived in Jordan on January 4, 1964. The next day he went to Israel to visit Nazareth, Tiberias, and Tel Megiddo, the place where the battle of

Russia says the conversion of Hagia Sophia is a Turkish matter

Relations between Moscow and Ankara will not deteriorate due to the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked in an interview with Avtoradio radio station.

“[Our] Turkish partners explained that everything will be preserved in the best possible way, and everyone will be able to visit Hagia Sophia. Moreover, I will tell you, there were quite expensive tickets to Hagia Sophia,” Peskov said. “And now

The miracle of the holy fire in JERUSALEM 2018 - Церемония священного огня Иерусалим - 2018

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Imponen medidas de distanciamiento en la Iglesia del Santo Sepulcro de Jerusalén

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Las principales iglesias cristianas de Jerusalén decretaron hoy restricciones para los fieles en el Santo Sepulcro, sitio más sagrado para el cristianismo, en la lucha contra la propagación del coronavirus, que ha puesto a la Ciudad Santa en aislamiento.

La basílica, que continuará abierta a pesar de las fuertes restricciones de movimiento impuestas en Jerusalén, ha ordenado a sus fieles que no estén a menos de dos metros de distancia unos de otros y evitar besar o tocar artilugios.

Baptized in the Jordan River

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Riesgo de pérdida de la presencia cristiana en Jerusalén

Las iglesias cristianas en Jerusalén han alertado sobre el riesgo de pérdida de presencia cristiana en la urbe tras validar el Supremo israelí la venta a una entidad procolona de tres inmuebles de la Ciudad Vieja, en territorio ocupado, que antes pertenecían al Patriarcado greco-ortodoxo.

El Tribunal Supremo aprobó esta semana la venta de tres edificios - entre los que hay dos hoteles - a Ateret Cohanim, asociación conocida por adquirir propiedades palestinas para colonos israelíes en la Ciudad Vieja y sus alrededores, después de rechazar una apelación del Patriarcado, propietario original de los inmuebles, que alegaba que las ventas se hicieron de manera irregular.