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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 587

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Orthodox Christians walk in the Good Friday procession in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
March 28, 2025, 7:20 am
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Attacks on Christians in Israel are national stain
ToI’s diplomatic reporter speaks about a shameful phenomenon in which mostly Haredi youth spit upon and denigrate visibly Christian Israelis or pilgrims – usually to little reprisal
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Christian worshipers at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on May 4, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 8:06 pm
Report shows rise in attacks on Christians in Israel, but a willingness to tackle issue
Second annual Rossing Center report documents 111 anti-Christian incidents in 2024. Accompanying survey finds almost half of Christians under 30 want to emigrate from Israel
By Rossella Tercatin
Hezbollah fighters attend the funeral of their commander Wissam al-Tawil, in the village of Khirbet Selm, south Lebanon, January 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
March 29, 2024, 4:21 pm
Lebanese nun’s call for students to pray for Hezbollah sparks furor, shows schisms
Terror group has alliances with figures from other religious groups, but base of its support lies in Shiite Muslim community; Christian leader: Hezollah destroying Lebanon
By BASSEM MROUE and MARIAM FAM
The Basilica of the Transfiguration, a Franciscan church located on Mount Tabor, December 31, 2016. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
August 19, 2023, 5:57 pm
Fire service forbids Christian pilgrims from celebrating Feast of Transfiguration
Authorities say church site on Mount Tabor cannot safely contain thousands of tourists, leading to cancellation of event for a second straight year
By ToI Staff
An undated photo of the Notre Dame guest house, convent, and church, located just outside Jerusalem's Old City. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
February 6, 2023, 8:17 pm
In fresh move in tax dispute with Vatican, Israel freezes Notre Dame hotel accounts
Municipality places lien on NIS 18 million in accounts of Vatican-owned church and pilgrim center, as three decades pass without economic agreement with Holy See
By Lazar Berman
The entrance to the Circassian village of Kfar Kama with an inscription in Hebrew and Circassian saying 'welcome' December 2020. (svarshik via iStock by Getty Images)
December 20, 2022, 11:25 pm
Circassian town in northern Israel wins UN recognition as global ‘tourist village’
Kfar Kama, in lower Galilee, is one of only two Circassian communities in Israel; award ceremony set for February in Saudi Arabia
By Danielle Nagler
A Christian worshiper prays outside the gates of the Holy Sepulchre Church in Jerusalem, which is closed in line with coronavirus regulations, April 04, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
April 10, 2020, 8:05 am
In Jerusalem, Christians mark a somber Easter
Mass to be broadcast on television and online as churches shuttered due to coronavirus lockdown
By AFP
Ornate and colorful frescoes are mostly intact despite the decades of neglect in the Romanian Monastery, the last church building in the Land of the Monasteries to be cleared of landmines, in a photo released by the Ministry of Defense on June 20, 2019. (courtesy Ministry of Defense)
June 20, 2019, 2:49 pm
Stunning Romanian church is final monastery cleared of mines at Qasr al-Yahud
Six months of work still remaining at Christian pilgrimage site until area is deemed landmine-free
By Melanie Lidman
The Gallery of Kings on the facade of Notre Dame Cathedral (CC BY Serge Melki/Wikimedia Commons)
April 16, 2019, 2:24 pm
Revered as kings, reviled as beggars: Notre Dame’s Jewish connection
Paris cathedral depicts Christianity’s conflicting, often antagonistic attitudes toward Jews throughout history
By ToI Staff
Pastor John Hagee, head of Christians United for Israel, at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem's Old City on May 11, 2018. (courtesy CUFI)
May 14, 2018, 3:03 pm
Top pro-Israel evangelical leader sees ‘wellspring’ of support for Jewish state
Ahead of his closing benediction at the dedication ceremony of the American Embassy in Jerusalem, Pastor John Hagee talks about anti-Semitism and the end of days
By ToI Staff
Judas Iscariot (right), retiring from the Last Supper, in painting by Carl Bloch, late 19th century (public domain, via wikipedia)
May 4, 2018, 4:43 pm
Attempted antiquities looting at site linked to blood money of Judas Iscariot
30-year-old Jerusalem man nabbed with excavation tools at ancient Christian graveyard in Jerusalem
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A sapper working to clear mines from the area around the Qasr al-Yahud Baptism site on the Jordan River, March 2018. (Defense Ministry)
March 20, 2018, 1:39 pm
Israel begins clearing thousands of landmines from Jordan River baptism site
Defense Ministry says there are over 3,000 munitions in Qasr al-Yahud area, including anti-personnel, anti-tank mines and booby-traps
By Melanie Lidman and ToI Staff
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby (CR) and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (CL) view a collection of early religious texts in the library during a private meeting at Lambeth Palace in London on March 8, 2018. (AFP/ Yui Mok)
March 8, 2018, 8:05 pm
Archbishop of Canterbury urges Saudi crown prince to treat Christians better
Pair discuss crown prince’s reform plans and view a selection of early texts from the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish faiths
By AFP
Orthodox Christian pilgrims take a dip in the Jordan river as part of a traditional Epiphany baptism ceremony at the site of Qasr el Yahud on January 18, 2018.(Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
February 13, 2018, 5:20 pm
Israel will soon clear 4,000 landmines at Qasr al-Yahud baptism site
Defense Ministry says de-mining effort on banks of Jordan River, led by international nonprofit HALO Trust, could begin within 6 weeks
By Melanie Lidman
A Pakistani walks in the main hall of a church following a suicide attack in Quetta, Pakistan, December 17, 2017. (Arshad Butt/AP)
December 17, 2017, 4:40 pm
8 killed in pre-Christmas suicide bomb attack on Pakistan church
Dozens injured in assault; security forces stop one attacker outside building, another blows himself up inside; reports that two more escaped the scene
By Maaz Khan
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