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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 571

Christians

Pedestrians walk past a mural depicting dark and shadowy Israeli soldiers on the International Wall on the Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 19, 2024. (Paul Ellis/AFP)
April 4, 2025, 4:27 pm
Antisemitism among Irish Christians at ‘Medieval’ levels, say researchers
New survey finds religious narratives play a ‘massive role’ in strong anti-Jewish and anti-Israel trends, with Catholics far less supportive of Israel than Protestants
By Zev Stub
Father Michael Assi after Sunday morning services at Mar Elias Church in Fassuta on March 23, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
March 31, 2025, 6:36 am
Christians in a northern Galilee village lean into their faith as they fear for the future
In times of peace or war, church bells sound in Fassuta every day, giving some residents a sense of hope while others worry about the next generation and a return to war
By Diana Bletter and Rossella Tercatin
Craig Berko, director of membership at Temple Beth Sholom, prepares to hand out prayer books during a Shabbat service, September 27, 2024, in Miami Beach, Florida. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)
February 28, 2025, 11:18 am
Most American Jews say they rarely or never pray, up 29% from a decade ago
Pew poll finds percentage of Jews who say they don’t pray – 58% – is far higher than among those who identify as Muslims, Christians; 31% of US Jews say they lean Republican
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Canterbury Cathedral, the mother church of the Church of England. (Wikimedia Commons)
February 20, 2025, 2:00 am
Survey: 1/3 of UK Christians believe Jews ‘still talk too much’ about the Holocaust
Professor who conducted poll notes that unlike in US, those in UK with conservative religious attitudes are less sympathetic to Israel and ‘linked with more antisemitic attitudes’
By Zev Stub
Rachel Laser, the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, speaks at an event the organization held at St John's Episcopal Cathedral in Los Angeles on November 21, 2024. (Courtesy of Evan Clark, Atheists United)
January 4, 2025, 8:40 pm
The Jewish woman leading the fight against American Christian nationalism
Since 2018, Rachel Laser, the first Jew to lead Americans United for Separation of Church and State, has worked with Christian allies to keep religion from influencing US laws
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
A liquor store decorated for Christmas in the Christian Quarter of the Jerusalem Old City, December 24, 2024 (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)
December 24, 2024, 10:42 pm
Jerusalem’s Christmas dimmed by war, but some Christians see a glimmer of hope
As conflict persists and tourist influx remains limited, public celebrations in the Old City are canceled for the second year in a row, but some refuse to give in to despair
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Girls pose for pictures on a platform as bubbles are sprayed at them near a lit up Christmas tree, Ramadan Lantern, and Hanukkah menorah displayed at the German Colony area in Israel's northern city of Haifa on December 21, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)
December 23, 2024, 9:56 am
After months of Hezbollah rocket attacks, Haifa’s Christians get ready for Christmas
Without the constant threat of war, residents say they can enjoy the reboot of the northern city’s annual Holiday of Holidays celebration, cancelled last year
By Diana Bletter
Donors and alumni of Passages tour Netiv Ha'asara on January 21, 2024. (Cade Chudy)
January 25, 2024, 1:49 am
Visiting Christian group donates $500,000 to Oct. 7 survivors’ post-trauma therapy
Passages had brought some 11,000 visitors to communities Kfar Aza and Netiv Ha’asara in the years leading up to the attack
By Canaan Lidor
A message in support of Gaza is displayed on a building next to the square of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on December 24, 2023. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
December 25, 2023, 4:44 am
Faithful pray for Holy Land peace as Gaza fighting dampens Christmas spirit
Pope says his heart is with Bethlehem, where traditional celebrations are largely snuffed out; keffiyeh-clad Latin Patriarch tells Church of Nativity ‘ceasefire is not enough’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Pastor Ryan Burge, an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University and author of, "The Nones," a book on the growing number of religiously unaffiliated Americans, preaches a sermon at First Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, September 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
October 7, 2023, 4:47 am
Meet the ‘nones,’ non-observant Americans who really don’t like organized religion
The growing, diverse phenomenon spans atheists, agnostics and others with varying levels of spirituality and religiosity, all disenfranchised with the churches they grew up in
By Peter Smith
Christian orthodox women hold candles and flowers as they walk in a procession to bring an icon of the Virgin Mary to the tomb where it is believed she is buried, along the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem, early Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. Every year before the Feast of the Assumption, the icon is brought from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the tomb of the Virgin Mary to honor her Assumption. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)
August 26, 2023, 1:53 am
Orthodox Christians commemorate Mary in Jerusalem religious ceremony
Procession of clergy and pilgrims walk along narrow streets of Old City holding candles and flowers from Church of the Holy Sepulchre to tomb to mark Feast of the Assumption
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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
Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram (Courtesy American United)
January 21, 2022, 5:50 am
Christian adoption agency accused of discrimination after refusing Jewish couple
Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram suing Tennessee, which funds Holston United Methodist Home, in first challenge to 2020 law giving agencies room to not help those of other creeds
By Shira Hanau
Rev. Meredith Mills delivers a sermon from the pulpit for some 30 attendants during the second service of the day in the sanctuary at Westminster United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas, Dec. 12, 2021. (Michael Wyke/AP)
December 20, 2021, 9:27 am
Sapped by COVID, Jewish and Christian houses of worship strain to rebuild attendance
After coronavirus pandemic restrictions forced a pause in services on-site, some went online, but as rules ease many community members are still staying at home
By AP and ToI Staff
A giant Christmas tree is seen at outside the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on December 15, 2021. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
December 16, 2021, 6:39 pm
Israel rejects Christians’ accusation of ‘racist’ bias in granting entry exemptions
Foreign Ministry condemns ‘false and dangerous’ allegations that came after Birthright groups given special permission to enter country, unlike Christmas pilgrims
By ToI Staff and AP
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