Topic: Israel

• Christianity did not begin with a ‘human sacrifice’

  Posted on 21 December 2011. Tags: Altamira, Christopher Hitchens, Deconversion movement, God, Israel, Jesus Christ, Lascaux

  One of Christopher Hitchens’s best quoted passages suggests that, though a brilliant orator, he misunderstood Christian theology

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• The freeing of Gilad Shalit shows Israel’s humanity – and Hamas’s blood-chilling cruelty

  Posted on 18 October 2011. Tags: Brian Keenan, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, John McCarthy, Terry Waite

  His kidnapping five years ago has done the Palestinian cause no favours

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• Pentecostals are quietly thriving in Jerusalem

  Posted on 08 February 2011. Tags: Bethlehem, Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestinian territories, Pentecostals

  The Alliance Pentecostal church is acquiring new converts each month

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• Morning Catholic must-reads: 12/11/10

  Posted on 12 November 2010. Tags: Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Bishop Gerald Kicanus, Dorothy Day, Gerald McDermott, iMass, iPad, Israel, Pakistan, Sacred Scripture, Synod of Bishops for the Middle East, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Verbum Domini

  A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church

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• It’s hardly anti-Semitic to say that Palestinians have been treated unjustly

  Posted on 01 November 2010. Tags: anti-Semitism, Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jerusalem Post, Middle East, Middle East Christians, Middle East Synod, Nostra aetate, Second Vatican Council, Synod of Bishops for the Middle East

  Middle East bishops had a right to speak up for Palestinians at the Synod

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• Pope: we can never give up on peace

  Posted on 27 October 2010. Tags: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, peace, Pope Benedict XVI, Synod of Bishops for the Middle East

  Pope Benedict XVI closes Middle East Synod by urging bishops never to resign themselves ‘to the absence of peace’

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• Middle East patriarchs fight for peace

  Posted on 21 October 2010. Tags: Israel, Middle East Synod, Synod of Bishops for the Middle East

  Representatives from churches in the Middle East attending the Synod have asked the international community to help Israel in achieving peace

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• The challenge of praying constantly

  Posted on 13 October 2010. Tags: Amalekites, Book of Exodus, Israel, prayer

  Twenty-ninth Sunday of the Year: Exodus 17:8-13; 2 Timothy 3:14-4:2; Luke 18:1-8

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• Pope meets Israeli president

  Posted on 03 September 2010. Tags: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Pope Benedict XVI, Shimon Peres

  The two men expressed hope that the renewal of talks in Washington would lead to ‘lasting peace’

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