[ Ed. note – A very welcomed resolution has been adopted by the General Synod of the United Church of Christ. ] By Anthony Mujaes United Church of Christ | July 3, 2017 The General Synod of the United Church of Christ is calling for an end to what is being described as “traumatic” practices …
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Christian Evangelicals Increasingly Support Palestinian Human Rights
By Alison Weir An article in Middle East Quarterly, a pro-Israel publication, reports that support for Israel is eroding among American evangelical Christians, with only 30 percent currently stating support for Israel above Palestinians. This trend is even more pronounced among youth, according to an article by David Brog, Jewish-American executive director of “Christians United For Israel (CUFI), …
Israel Losing Support From Its Biggest Ally: US Evangelical Christians
A Shift Among Evangelicals … Especially Among the Young We documented yesterday that the biggest supporters of Israel are American evangelical Christians … Protestants or – to a lesser extent – Catholics. But that support base is slipping … Buzzfeed reported in January: Figures with deep roots in America’s religious right have launched a quiet effort aimed at pushing …
Evaporating Support Among Young American Christians Panics Israel Supporters
Yesterday I posted an article about a conference called “Christ at the Checkpoint,” which opened Monday in Bethlehem and will run through Friday. The conference was designed with the aim of exploring the teachings of Jesus and how they might “contribute towards achieving peace and justice in Palestine/Israel.” Though it has been scathingly denounced by the Israeli …
The ‘Jewish Covenant with God,’ According to Pope Francis
By Richard Edmondson The supposed “covenant” establishing the Jews as God’s “chosen people”—and particularly Pope Francis’ recently-articulated position on this—has been the subject of a very lively online discussion over the past week or so. Francis is quite possibly the most philo-Semitic pope in history, and in November of 2013 he published his Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy …