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.”

Palestinian Christians are being used to advance Israel’s colonialist goals. Palestinian Evangelical leadership must be held accountable for the role they are playing.

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.

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Ten globally recognized Christian organizations in Palestine “condemn and denounce in the strongest possible terms” Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian groups, including leading human rights groups, as “terrorist organizations.”

Birzeit student Layan Nasir is currently being imprisoned at Israel’s Damon Military Prison with seven other female students. Rev. Fadi Diab says the story of her baptism as an infant to her detention as a university student reveals the arbitrariness of the Israeli occupation.

“Assigning the label ‘terrorist organization’ to Hamas hides a more complicated truth that Hamas is a reflection and result of the untenable and unjust status quo.”