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Then-US Senate candidate Jackson Lahmeyer, a Tulsa-area pastor, speaks to Edmond resident Winona Heltzel on March 15, 2022, at the H&H Shooting Sports gun range in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo by Sean Murphy_File)
June 16, 2026, 10:21 am
Trump-backed congressional candidate supports Israel, says Antichrist will be Jewish
Jackson Lahmeyer favored in Tuesday’s primary for solidly Republican Oklahoma district with large Jewish community, amid widening evangelical divide over Zionism
By Andrew Lapin and Grace Gilson
Worshippers conducting services on Easter Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, April 5, 2026. (Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
April 12, 2026, 5:26 pm
Easter prayer fiasco, resolved too late, shows Christians still treated as afterthought
Netanyahu boasted about protecting worshipers once row over Holy Sepulchre access was fixed; without serious attention to policy, he’ll continue rushing to clean up scandals after the harm has been done
By Lazar Berman
Tourism Minister Haim Katz (middle) and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (first on the right) at the opening ceremony of the International Mediterranean Tourism Market (IMTM) fair in Tel Aviv, Feb. 3, 2026. (Courtesy of Ronen Horesh)
February 4, 2026, 11:35 am
Israel banks on Christian pilgrims and faith-based travel to drive tourism recovery
Tourism Ministry plans a digital campaign geared to Evangelicals and pro-Israel communities; AI app for Holy Land trips launches with support of US Ambassador Mike Huckabee
By Sharon Wrobel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Evangelical community leaders in Florida on December 31, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
January 1, 2026, 8:31 am
PM tells Evangelical leaders Israel is part of effort to protect Christians worldwide
Netanyahu doesn’t name the countries involved; PM says fight for support among young conservatives in US amid increased antisemitism, anti-Israel sentiment is an 8th front in war
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Israel supporters, including Christian evangelicals, participate in the United for Israel march outside of Columbia University in New York City on April 25, 2024. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images via JTA)
October 4, 2025, 6:49 am
Israel to spend up to $4.1M in bid to bolster support among Christians in western US
Federal filings show Foreign Ministry hired US firm to run campaign targeting churchgoers with digital ads, mobile ‘Oct. 7th Experience’
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Christian Palestinian mourners bid farewell to Saad Salameh and Foumia Ayyad, killed earlier by errant Israeli tank fire that hit the Holy Family church in Gaza City, during their funeral ceremony at the Saint Porphyrius Church on July 17, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)
July 21, 2025, 10:54 pm
Causing strategic, moral harm, Netanyahu lets others dictate Israel’s ties with Christians
Last week underscored how little control the PM, a longtime friend of evangelicals, exerts over key relationship, as extremists undermine support and army focuses on tactical fight
By Lazar Berman
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 29, 2025, 2:45 am
New US envoy: Israel’s struggle against its enemies is a ‘battle between heaven and hell’
Mike Huckabee, an Evangelical, declares Israel ‘a chosen place for a chosen people,’ lauds Trump for reversing Biden’s ‘ridiculous policies,’ says his top goal is returning the hostages
By Sam Sokol
Pastor Sam Rodriguez (L) and Bishop Robert Stearns (R) in Jerusalem, February 2025 (Courtesy Eagles' Wings)
February 20, 2025, 8:52 pm
Leading Hispanic pastor seeks to build firewall against declining Israel support
In partnership with Eagles’ Wings, Sam Rodriguez – adviser to Bush, Obama, and Trump – sees young clergy as key to countering pro-Palestinian trends in Latino community
By Lazar Berman
Then-Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump (R) and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee during a roundtable at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center, October 29, 2024, in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
November 15, 2024, 10:41 am
Is Trump’s pick of Huckabee as envoy to Israel a harbinger of West Bank annexation?
While proponents and opponents of move agree next US administration will seriously weigh it, some note president-elect’s unpredictability
By Ron Kampeas
Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump wraps up a campaign rally at J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, November 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
November 5, 2024, 1:30 am
Why Trump is being compared to the obscure biblical king Jehu on the Christian right
Some pastors are urging their followers to think of the Republican candidate as a present-day manifestation of the monarch who violently killed the evil Jezebel
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Illustrative: A partial solar eclipse is seen behind a cross on the steeple of the St. George church, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, June 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
April 5, 2024, 6:10 pm
For some Christians, upcoming solar eclipse heralds the second coming of Christ
Total solar eclipse on April 8 that will be visible in North America sparks speculation among some US Evangelical Christians that it could be a portent of the End of Days
By Eric Vanden Eykel
Dutch volunteers Anja van der Stok, left, and Jannie Slim, right, pick lemons on a farm in southern Israel, as part of a post-October 7 solidarity tour, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
March 13, 2024, 5:25 pm
Showing support for Israel, American Christians volunteer for war effort
In the US, standing for the Jewish state has become a top priority for evangelicals during a presidential election year
By AP and ToI Staff
Members of a delegation of International Christian Embassy Jerusalem pastors tour what's left of Kibbutz Nir Oz in January 2024. (ICEJ)
February 19, 2024, 6:59 am
Turning the other cheek on extremist Jews’ incitement, Christians flock to Israel
Delegations and solidarity trips of hundreds of supporters from churches around the world are touring the sites of carnage wrought by Hamas while bolstering the survivors
By Canaan Lidor
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
Pastor John Hagee, Christians United For Israel (CUFI) founder and chairman, speaks during a CUFI event on July 17, 2023, in Arlington, Virginia. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
January 23, 2024, 5:10 am
In veiled jab at Trump, pro-Israel evangelical leader slams racism, antisemitism in GOP
John Hagee publishes op-ed taking implied shots at former US president, denounces Texas state party for rejecting ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers
By Ron Kampeas
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