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Hollywood Stars find Faith during their Israel Tour

by OCP May 15, 2012 Featured News
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Elisa Moed and Gil Zohar 15/5/2012 Travelujah “People can learn, plan and share their Holy land tour and travel experiences on Travelujah.” A group of eight Hollywood TV and film stars completed a week-long tour of Israel Sunday as guests of Israel’s Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs. The [...]

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Israeli Persecution forces Christians to Emigrate

by OCP May 5, 2012 Featured News

By Khalid Amayreh 5/5/2012 Israeli ambassador to the United State Michael Oren recently tried to bully CBS to kill a story exposing Israeli persecution, harassment and mistreatment of Palestinian Christians, forcing many of them to emigrate. Oren, a Jewish supremacist, reportedly described the ’60 Minutes’ broadcast of 12+ minute story on Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinian [...]

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Bethlehem’s last Christians?

by OCP April 29, 2012 News

28/4/2012 Op-ed: World, churches silent in face of Islamic persecution of Palestinian Christians. Veteran CBS News anchor Bob Simon just reported on the Palestinian Christians, indicting Israel’s “occupation” as responsible for their dramatic disappearance. The 60 Minutes story caused Israel tremendous PR damage. Yet largely ignored by Western media, a systematic campaign of Muslim persecution [...]

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Georgia-Israel Relations Continue Stumbling With Monastery Flap – Analysis

by OCP April 19, 2012 Featured News
The Monastery of the Cross, Jerusalem.

By Brittany Pheiffer 19/4/2012 A controversy over a historically Georgian monastery in Jerusalem is further complicating already-strained ties between Tel Aviv and Tbilisi. Despite mutual reputations as bastions of liberalism in charged geopolitical zones, Georgia’s relationship with Israel has been rocky for years. Georgia’s previously positive relationship with Israel became tense after intelligence indicated that [...]

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Copts tour J’lem for Easter after their pope’s death

by OCP April 10, 2012 News

Photo: Marc Israel Sellem By BEN HARTMAN 9/4/2012 On first Easter since death of their pope, who banned pilgrimages, Egyptian Christian group’s members come to J’lem. Dr. Kahlida Mamdouhah of Cairo waited for years before fulfilling his dream of making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem out of respect for the late Coptic pope who had banned [...]

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A Palestinian Christian Eyewitness Remembers The Israeli Military Siege Of The Church Of The Nativity

by OCP April 8, 2012 News

By Sharat G. Lin with Jiries Canavati in Bethlehem 8/4/2012 Ten years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in response to a rapid succession of suicide bombings by Palestinians inside Israel and against Israeli settlements in the West Bank , vowed revenge, calling for “an uncompromising war to uproot these savages.” Calling Palestinian leader Yasir [...]

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Coptic church denies lifting ban

by OCP April 8, 2012 Featured News

By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent 8/4/2012 Cairo: The Coptic Orthodox Church has denied lifting a ban on pilgrimage to occupied Jerusalem as more Egyptian Christians have flown to Israel to visit the holy city in the past few days. “We continue to follow in the footsteps of late Pope Shenouda III with regard to national [...]

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Ancient monastery attacked by Israeli extremists

by OCP April 5, 2012 Featured News

By Lauren Gelfond Feldinger 4/4/2012 Continuing vandalism at religious sites prompts condemnation from religious communities and politicians. A medieval Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem, one of the latest holy sites to be targeted in the region in an epidemic of vandalism, is at the centre of a diplomatic dispute between Greece and Georgia. In February, [...]

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Land Day Anniversary in Syria

by OCP April 1, 2012 News

(Dp-news – Sana) 1/4/2012 Syria – With the participation of crowds of Syrians in addition to representatives of Syrian, Palestinian, Arab and international sides, the activities of the Global March to al-Quds started on Friday in Damascus. In an open message to the participants, Archbishop Atallah Hanna, Archbishop of Sebaste Roman Orthodox in Jerusalem said [...]

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Scathing anti-Semitism pervades ‘Holey Land’ exhibition in Sweden

by OCP April 1, 2012 News
A poster of an exhibition at the Swedish Christian Study Center portraying Israelis as rats and the West Bank as cheese.

By Anna Ekström 1/4/2012 Art exhibition at Stockholm church accuses Jews and Israel of being inherently destructive. A picture of a Bible converted into a tank hangs before my eyes. The book with its cannon is on a rampage. No enemy can be seen. In the background is a meandering wall: the West Bank barrier. [...]

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Jerusalem Tomb Reveals First Archaeological Evidence of Christianity from the Time of Jesus

by OCP March 25, 2012 Featured News

28/3/2012 The archaeological examination by robotic camera of an intact first century tomb in Jerusalem has revealed a set of limestone Jewish ossuaries or “bone boxes” that are engraved with a rare Greek inscription and a unique iconographic image that the scholars involved identify as distinctly Christian. The four-line Greek inscription on one ossuary refers [...]

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Interfaith Eco-Conference Reveals Need To Educate Religious Leaders

by OCP March 23, 2012 Featured News

22/3/2012 Miriam Kresh “I came today, not to say anything new – but to learn.” So the Greek Orthodox Archbishop, Dr. Elias Chacour, began the Interfaith Climate and Energy Conference that took place yesterday, March 19, in Jerusalem. The conference was organized by the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development together with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. [...]

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Egypt’s next pope faces immense challenges

by OCP March 21, 2012 News

Yasmine Fathi 21/3/2012 “Egypt isn’t a country we live in, but a country that lives within us.” So said Egypt’s late Coptic Pope Shenouda III, in one of his better-known public statements. After heading Egypt’s Coptic Church since 1971, Shenouda passed away quietly on Saturday, putting millions of Christians into a state of mourning. A [...]

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‘Price Tag’ mirrors Hitler’s youth

by OCP March 16, 2012 News

By Jamal Kanj 15/3/2012 Death to Christians’ and ‘Death to Arabs’ were scrawled in Hebrew last week on an old monastery and property of Palestinian Christians in Jerusalem. On February 20, a Baptist church was defiled with graffiti insulting Jesus’ mother. Earlier in the same month, an 11th century Greek Orthodox monastery was desecrated. The [...]

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Historian: Israel safest place in Mideast for Christians

by OCP March 13, 2012 Featured News

Ryan Jones 13/3/2012 The steep drop in the number of Christians living in the Palestinian Authority-controlled territories is often blamed on Israel. But Middle East historian and Israel’s current ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, says that a similar erosion of Christian populations in other countries in the region suggests the Palestinian narrative is simply [...]

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Christians drive youth support for Israel

by OCP March 13, 2012 News

Stephen Richer, Contributor 13/3/2012 Last week’s AIPAC Policy Conference could lead one to think that young voters are overwhelmingly pro-Israel. The three-day Israel love fest attracted 1,600 students from 500 schools. Add to this number the young voters at AIPAC who already graduated from college (including yours truly), and the 18 to 29 year old [...]

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More on Discoveries at Horbat Midras in Israel

by OCP March 11, 2012 News
An aerial view of the remains of the Byzantine-era church (A. Ganor et al / the Israel Antiquities Authority)

2/3/2012 A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has published a report on results of excavation works conducted in 2010-2011 on the slopes of the Judaean hills at Horbat Midras, including a groundbreaking discovery of a Byzantine-era church. About a year ago the archaeologists announced that they unearthed a church which they believe [...]

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Israel and the Plight of Mideast Christians

by OCP March 10, 2012 News
A damaged crucifix survives the burning of a Greek-Orthodox church in Tulkarem in the West Bank on Sept. 17, 2006.

9/3/2012 The church in Bethlehem had survived more than 1,000 years, through wars and conquests, but its future now seemed in jeopardy. Spray-painted all over its ancient stone walls were the Arabic letters for Hamas. The year was 1994 and the city was about to pass from Israeli to Palestinian control. I was meeting with [...]

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New Testament sparks controversy among Israeli postmen

by OCP March 6, 2012 News

6/3/2012 A controversy was brewing this week when a handful of postmen from the Ramat Gan suburb of Tel Aviv refused to deliver packages containing the New Testament. Initial reports in the Israeli press did not specify which organization had mass-mailed the copies of the New Testament to Israeli households, but it is not uncommon [...]

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Georgia demands return of Monastery of the Cross from Jerusalem

by OCP February 27, 2012 News

27/2/2012 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili wants Israel to return control over the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem, News.ru reports. The monastery was built by a son of Georgian King Bagrat IV in the 11th century. It was named after part of the cross used for the crucifixion of Christ, which was stored at the [...]

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His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia the Second Visits Israel

by OCP February 23, 2012 News

22/2/2012 His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia the Second departed for Israel on February 16. During his visit in Israel His Holiness will meet the Patriarch of Jerusalem Orthodox Church, Theopile II and visit Holy Christian sites. While in Israeli, the Patriarch will have a meeting with President of the State of [...]

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Christians Stoned by Muslim Mob at Temple Mount

by OCP February 23, 2012 News
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man takes a picture in front of the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City Sept. 18, 2011.

By Setrige Crawford , Christian Post Reporter 22/2/2012 Christian tourists have been stoned by a mob of Palestinian Muslims during a visit to Temple Mount in Jerusalem. A mob of 50 Muslims reportedly attacked a group of Christian tourist’s atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, according to Israel Today Magazine. Israeli police intervened to protect the Christian [...]

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Writing on the wall: Israel and its Christians

by OCP February 22, 2012 Featured News

By DAVID ROSENBERG / THE MEDIA LINE/ 02/21/2012 Jerusalem church points to negative attitudes among many Jews. A day after it was discovered on the exterior walls of a Jerusalem Baptist church this week, graffiti declaring “Death to Christianity” had been cleaned up and a host of officials from the Israeli government had visited with [...]

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Hundreds of African refugees are being held hostage in the Sinai desert of Egypt

by OCP February 16, 2012 Featured News

14/2/2012 Hundreds of African refugees are being held hostage in the Sinai desert of Egypt by smugglers demanding up to $40,000 (£25,000) each for their release, human rights workers have warned. A brutal trafficking industry has flourished over the past year in which Bedouin gangs, emboldened by their apparent impunity, extort higher and higher prices [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania: Righteous Simeon and Prophetess Anna Express the Joy the Righteous Feel When they Meet God

by OCP February 3, 2012 News

3/2/2012 His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church explained in the sermon delivered to the faithful present in the chapel of Saint Gregory the Enlightener of the Patriarchal Residence the significance of the feast of the Presentation of the Lord. “This event is included in the Judaic tradition according to which 40 days [...]

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