“Congress cannot ignore the ongoing violations of Palestinian human rights,” Christian faith leaders tell U.S. representatives.

Mitri Raheb exposes the West’s invention of “the persecution of Christians” as a justification for hegemonic intervention and colonization.

Jerusalem’s Greek Orthodox Patriarchate condemns restrictions imposed by Jerusalem police on the numbers of Palestinian Christians that may enter the Church of the Holy Sepulchre this Saturday, one of the holiest days on the Christian calendar. “The Patriarchate is fed up with police restrictions on freedom to worship,” the Patriarchate statement reads, “with its unacceptable methods of dealing with the God given rights of Christians to… have to access their holy sites in the Old City of Jerusalem.”

“The seizure of the Little Petra Hotel by the radical extremist group Ateret Cohanim is a threat to the continued existence of a Christian Quarter in Jerusalem,” says Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III.

Leaders of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) issued a Pastoral Letter this week opposing Christian Zionism and saying “Israeli policies and practices that discriminate against Palestinians—Christians and Muslims alike—are consistent with the international definition of the crime of apartheid.”

Church leaders in Jerusalem have expressed their “gravest concern and unequivocal objection” to an Israeli plan to extend the Jerusalem Walls National Park to include the Mount of Olives, one of Christianity’s holiest sites.

Last week, Palestinian Christians paid tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu who died in December last year. The prayer service was held where Tutu prayed when he visited Beit Sahour in 1989.

Kairos Palestine calls on the Church, civil society and governments to pressure Israel.

Patriarch Theophilos III charges that a rising number of assaults against Christians and church buildings are an attempt to drive the Christian community out of Jerusalem’s Old City.

Three Palestinian young people share the tremendous challenges they face due to the Israeli occupation.