christians and christianity are under attack in gaza and palestine more generally. zinis ideology is not just anti muslim, it is anti-christian too. what is the common factor that links muslims and christians in? they're palestinian, so it's no surprise that the zianists are making sure to destroy churches as well as mosks. on october the 19th, israel bombed the church of st. porferius, gaza's oldest, killing at least 18 people. the church is said to be the third oldest christian church in the world, with the current building having been constructed by the crusaders in the 1150s or 11/60s. a church was built on the sites as early as 425 ad. two days earlier, an explosion at al-ahli arab hospital, an anglican institution, located few blocks away, killed and injured hundreds, according to palestinian health authorities. the evidence is beginning to mount that the attacks on specifically christian targets are themselves a specific genocide contained within the larger genocide aimed at muslims and indeed all palestinians. on december 16th, line is directly targeted a ch

, it's like saying i'm a christian racist, zionism, christian. zanism was founded on the idea that the jews are god's chosen people, ethnically pure, racially descended from abraham, isaac and jacob, the promises god made to abraham apply to the jews today, they get all of the land between the river and the sea, between iraq and egypt, they get jerusalem is their exclusive capital, and and they're on god's side, and therefore if you don't stand with israel, god's going to judge you. it's it's a an apocalyptic theology, it's dangerous and and it needs to be repudiated. what would your message be to uh christians you know watching this horror unfold you particularly we run into to christmas and it's just horrific i mean i would invite them to reflect upon how they're celebrating christmas in bethlehem at the luthran church um they have created a nativity scene which is a pile of rocks and top of the rocks is uh is is baby jesus wrapped in cafier the palestinian head scarf and it's meant to represent. gaza is meant to represent the fact that if as a

christian nationalists. yup. how do you address that? oh, man. well, in some level, we to you know, we might even say the fact that, you know, that liberal christians have some good things to say and conservative christians have some good things to say. we want to be neither one of those? we just want to be christians. so we want to look for those bedrock principles that we can all kind of agree on. and we understand as as flowing from scripture. and but the christian nationalist part of it actually is kind of an aberration. it's kind of a bit of a it's got an unused war history to it, what is now called christian nationalism used to kind of honestly sort of look like what we would call dynamic reconstruction ism, which is a weird set of terms that a lot of probably don't know. but that goes back really into the seventies and eighties and nineties. and a lot of this stuff kind of has its genesis there. we don't really get into that so much in the book but we do have a cool session coming up here at freedom f

, yes that you discriminate against christians are idol worshippers. the tora says that christianity is idol worship, you also have the same rabbies making threats to destroy churches, even if the united states government will say, okay, okay, hey, you becoming too fanatic, the government, too religious, we'll give you a billion dollar extra every year to the aid, don't touch the churches, we're not allow to listen to them, god comes before obama and his friends, while it appears that for the jewish extremist squatters in palestine, spitting on... christians is favored passtime. then there is the outride blasphemy against jesus and his pure mother we kill jesus we're proud of it really? של פסולת שיוצא מהקיבה של בני אדם וחתולים וכלבים ואריות ולמרים רותחת מבעבת שמה שמים אותו שמה הוא נאנש קרה כל רגע ורגע זה קרה. um, reverend, if i can come to you again for this question, uh, you know, what, what you've uh, the persecution that you've faced, um, i'm assuming uh, you know, is is a parallel that you can draw between uh, yourself, uh, the christian palestinians, but also jesus as well, face

in this way, jerusalem constitutes a unique and holy city for christianity. other holy sites are associated with events from the old testament, the lives of mary, john, the baptist, and the apostles, with endless more associated with later christian saints, holy men and women, and local traditions, but bethlehem will be somber place this year as the christian of... the three major churches, greek orthodox, armenian and catholic, have stated they will not be celebrating. this year is going to be totally different, there won't be any lights, we will not have the christmas tree. we will be morning those who are being slaughtered in gaza. there's a deep bathmes spear of grief here, and all the churches have decided to only have religious services for christmas. these holy places, the indigenous christian community and pilgrims who come to visit from all over the world have long been the subject of violence, harassment and intimidation by the occupation forces who have not allowed the community to worship in peace. the temple mount is no exception, often the subje

from extremist rabbies calling for christians to be killed. two billion christians, which are idol worshipper, between chinese, india, hindus, buddhists and christian, at least six, six and a half billion people are idol worshippers that according to the torah do not have the right to live, idol worshipper go, it's dead penalty, not only jews, even a gow down to idol, believe in jc, deserve death penalty, my country to ordinary israel. is making the same murderous threats, are you jewish? do you want to honor god? that is the godly thing to do, we respect one another, the godly thing to do is to kill you, the godly thing is to kill me, that's right, that's what the taura says, the taura says to kill us, the tora says that idol, people who worship vidal such as yourself, when there is a sanhedrin to kill us, yes, okay, that's what the tour, so we know how the jewish people feel about christians, yes, that you discriminate against christians, we discriminate aga say, you also have the same rabbies making threats to destroy churches. even if the united states government will say, okay, okay, hey

christian, conservative own christian radical. so a slab is a very broad thing. it's not monolithic. and frankly, at least the people that i know of from asked are quite mild, quite moderate, like, uh, uh, some of them are progressive. there are some crazies of course, uh, but then you find that in every religion and every political movements. uh i think uh the harm actually those have made here that i'm willing to accept a sort of long term, but now with israel that they are willing to work with the piano or defend to the nationalist. they are a lot of religious in there, but it to jump doctrine. but now that's crazy. find the mentors that they're not the kaisers and that is very predictive actually of the tiny christian my knowledge you guys uh uh, throughout the years a lot of the rise of how this was because people were very disgruntled with fedex and that, but i still need my apology, good, very corrupt and then efficient its best. and its worse, there was savings, occupation, and collaborating with it. and sort of controllin

christians killed. of the survivors have little to celebrate this christmas displaced and separated from feminine body is one of about a 1000 palestinian christians in gaza. i last magazine as no one feels the holiday spirit. there won't be the usual christmas decorations or celebrations. we pray to god to end this war soon. stop these massacres. back in bethlehem worship as a 10 midnight mess in a show of solidarity. the. the cardinal of the latin patriarch hates of jerusalem. didn't pay is traditional visits because of this year . instead his christmas message to live in in bethlehem, gaza, you will not alone, lots of band and mice level for inside story that's not bringing our gas, joining us from bethlehem and the occupied westbank. is it a ham? jeffrey who's action a palestine communications and advocacy coordinator. and roger john benevolence is frank postman, who's an associate professor of cultural fee. ology at the tube or a school of catholic theology and from the old city an occupied east. je

is this not christianity? you can be a christian marxist. you can be a christian. as sophie, you can be a christian mistake, you can be a christian liberal on christian, conservative own christian radical islam is a very broad thing. it's not monolithic. and frankly, at least the people that i know of from a mass are quite mild, quite moderate, like uh, uh, some of them ive progressive. the awesome, crazy is of course, uh but, but then you find that in every religion and every political movements. uh i think uh the harm actually those have made here that i'm willing to accept the sort of long term but now with israel that they are willing to work with the piano or defend the nationalist. they are a lot of religious in there. uh, but did you have a doctor and uh, but now that stays you find the mentors. uh they said that the kaiser has and that is very predictive actually of the tiny christian my knowledge you guys uh uh, throughout the years a lot of the rise of how this was because people are very disgruntled with fedex and that, but i send you an apology, good, v

.7 christian scholarship?> well, i suppose the thing is, it's a useful thing to think with. so we thought about what are the things that the pythons got right and there's lots of things that the pythons got right . and, you know, right. and, you know, particularly to do with the political social world of political and social world of the first century, situating jesus within this jewish landscape and also some of the things, perhaps, that the pythons got wrong or that they're just help us to think a little bit about how we're putting together the life of jesus. it was really interesting to think that we given actually given proper academics a new perspective. >> so i thought it would be fun if i asked helen some questions about christy vanity, which are kind of very, very simple. but i think that there are things that people don't know. i mean, for a start, we what evidence is there for christ's existence other than what's in the bible? >> there's actually really good evidence that he existed , and evidence th

ben gavier then questioned why do we turn spitting on christians into a criminal? offense, i know, it angers me too, speak back on the occupation and only then christmas will be marry again. welcome to the mid stream, i'm osman. in a show of solidarity with the palestinians of gaza and the devastation. church leaders in bethlehem and elsewhere in the palestinian holy land have asked local christians to avoid public displays of celebration and to instead intensify their prayers for the war's innocent victims. bethlehem municipal authorities to announce the removal of previously installed christmas decorations in solidarity with our people in gaza. to discuss this issue with us from damascus syria is father elyas zahlawi, a catholic priest of the church of our lady of damascus. father zahlawi, it's an honor to have you with us, especially on these very tough devastating days with christmas being on the verge of these very devastating days. now, as you know, there is no christmas in bethlehem this year, actually there's no christmas in all of palestine, all of the reg

morning the murders of the gaza strip, palestinian christians will not celebrate christmas this year. the holiday rituals will be limited to prayers, which will also be hindered, especially in the occupied city of al-quds. zianist israel has turned the city of al-quds into military barracks throughout the year, currently. deploying its checkpoints and police forces in all alleys, streets and squares. this is accompanied by direct assaults by soldiers and setlers obstructing the lives of al quds residents, including their prayers without any freedom. palestinian christians have not only cancelled holiday celebrations, but have also in recent weeks sent letters to all religious and human rights authorities worldwide, urging them to work to stop the genocide against gaza. at the same time, condemnations continue for the visit by the... of christian churches in al-quds to the residence of israeli entity president isaac herzog during the holiday season. among the condemnations was a statement from the pastoral council of the ramala roman catholic melkite church, which denounced the meeting

in your opinion, what does the disappearance of the christian elements or the dwindling of the christian elements from palestine mean for the country itself? and also for the region, all the things on the israel and the senior is one of the places where people from the 3 ever medics phase can prove that they need one of the couple of days to get the bottom of them. so if christians muslims, and use cannot find a way to get together, especially in terms of learning about simon and last, throughout the place of a sudden pool and falls free unassisted additions, then, well, then it gets to help the rest of the world. so andrew, israel as a bonus, points of the in semester and it just attention always has been a challenge for always be a, that's fine. and if what else, it's really what happened to disappear altogether from from israel co sign is what mean? well, the to suggest that the only way that the 3 months is to experience is gonna work together was one of them disappeared. so maybe untrue them disappearance would be such a shame for only uh, romantics paid for for humanity. as a whole

morning the murders of the gaza strip, palestinian christians will not celebrate christmas this year. the holiday rituals will be limited to prayers, which will also be hindered, especially in the occupied city of al-quds. zionist israel has turned the city of al-quds into military barracks throughout the year, currently. deploying its checkpoints and police forces in all alleys, streets and squares. this is accompanied by direct assaults by soldiers and settlers obstructing the lives of al quds residents, including their prayers without any freedom. palestinian christians have not only canceled holiday celebrations, but have also in recent weeks sent letters to all religious and human rights authorities worldwide, urging them to work to stop the genocide against gaza. at the same time, condemnations continue for the visit by the head. of christian churches in al-quds to the residence of israeli entity president isaac herzog during the holiday season. among the condemnations was a statement from the pastoral council of the ramala roman catholic melkite church, which denounced the meet

and for christianity as a religion in the country. "there is israeli jewish persecution that is encouraged either through police negligence or through the statements made by israeli government ministers. now the harassment is not limited to determining the numbers of worshippers and the paths they take in al-quds, it extends to the collaboration of the occupation police with settlers and zionist right-wing extremist groups who roam the neighborhoods and alleys of the city. christian believers are subjected to insults and verbal abuse. on many occasions the occupation police intervene. and physically assault them in case of disputes with settlers who regularly spit at christian believers wherever they see them. now minister of national security itamar bin gavir defended those acts saying, there is ancient jewish custom to spit when passing near a monastery or priest, and you can agree with it or disagree. vengavier then questioned, why do we turn spitting on christians into a criminal offense? "i know, it angers me too. spit back on th

but the christians who are against these christian zionists are pushed aside. influence of this zionist path in american foreign policy has been underestimated. thank you very much for your support . have a nice day. in the name of god, greetings and good morning to you, the essential viewers of khabar network, i have to tell you that during the last day and night, yesterday, in the hottest hour of the day among the centers of the provinces, the temperature in bandab reached 29 degrees above zero, and as the hottest center it was reported in the province that this morning t at the beginning of the morning, in the coldest hour, the temperature reached 8 degrees below zero. and as the main center of the province, in terms of temperature , i would like to inform you that today and tomorrow in ardabil province and the southern part of the caspian sea , we are witnessing an increase in temperature, but from thursday due to the influence of cold northern currents on the northern parts of the country. gradually, this trend of temperature increase gives its place to th

i think as christian was, we were looking for a new home that was christian. so we were looking in europe. i hope i could do. yeah, we heard there was democracy, freedom them and weren't via i guess and above all peace slide please. and that was here and in your overall appeal and i get my oil. but zima learned german and after doing an apprenticeship as a hair dresser opened his own salon and met georgette. she too is christian and had to emigrate it to germany from syria and 2000. the couple now have 2 sons and a daughter. every sunday, after church service, the family gathers together for lunch. so i cannot say no, probably our children were all born here. where there are other traditions stealing vehicles. we've tried to find a compromise that includes our ancestors, vague meetings, vague. so if in english are him isn't to assimilate. jo bonds we have what's rather to integrate yet than the intake. i mean really make an effort on that front of you out. i need just telling me she of what she's at home both here under turkey. i don't know how i see this havi

and i would argue christians and non-christians alike should care about that. as a pastor, i care about it because as said in the beginning, these are people these are souls. even the christians who are no longer attending church. the reality is that the children of the church will most likely be unchurched. and as a pastor, i care about that. but even my agnostic and atheist friends should care about the impact is going to have on the culture in which we live. live the the gdp of all the people who have left the 40 million is about $1.4 trillion. so if you take national giving average of 2.5% and you apply it to that 40 million group of 40 million people, about $4 billion a year is leaving the church. and so when you think also about the fact 40% of the social safety net in our country comes from churches and religious nonprofits, this is this is going have make a big difference because even though some of the church people are still giving to those institutions the likelihood their children and grandchildren will is pretty low. so christian or not, this is go

the message from christian scientists has been loud and clear. this is not just a suggestion that we should pray for israel. this is a typical mandate that we should pray for the p. an awesome jerusalem christian zion is, is a belief that is real, plays a t prophetic role in the return of jesus. so christian scientists believe that everything that happens with regard to the state of israel, from its founding in 1948 to the war. that is occurring right now in gaza. our fulfillment of prophecy in the bible. good, i christians here it is real and in the united states and in canada and all over the world are watching what's happening then. asking critical questions. is this horrific war and gaza? part of in times bible prophecy, every time since the founding of israel, when there's been major wars, american of evan jellico who are interested in prophecies have gotten very excited about the possibility that this war is the war that signals the beginning of the return of jesus to earth, which they believe will happen and they believe israel and wars co

christian. about 40 years old, you are male, you were probably never a christian, and life seemed to bell working well for you. you didn't necessarily have a big problem with the church, edges kind of moved on from church about a decade ago. and so the cultural christians, this is group of people that didn't essence of have a big with the church. by and large of their in-depth cultural, that casual dechurched category. not this is a lot there looks catastrophic. the average age of p the person who is a cultural christians who dechurched is 40 years old and the dechurched about a decade ago.t this group interestingly enough is almost entirely monolithically white. and one thing to note as were going through all the data here, the machine learning algorithm rejimmy for two, we did not allw the algorithm to sort based on race or ethnicity. and so these classes were developed without the algorithm, have the benefit of seeing thate we will circle back and forth,, little bit of back and forth without

only about 2000 christians still live in the area. one percent of the communities numbers a century ago. in the today, there are around 300000 syriac orthodox christians, living outside turkey, primarily in europe and the united states. almost half of the diaspora has found a new home in germany in the town of b to kind dissing in in south western germany, the syriac orthodox community comprises some 500 families, the z mon, whose it was 17. when his family moved to germany from eastern turkey in 1990 the via hobbin i states as christian was that we were looking for a new home that was christian. so we were looking in europe. i hope i could do. yeah. when we heard there was democracy, freedom and weren't i, i guess and above all peace slide please. and that was here and in your overall appeal in i get my oil, but zima learned german and after doing an apprenticeship as a hair dresser opened his own salon. and met georgette. she too is christian and had to emigrate it to germany from syria in 2000. a couple now have 2 sons and a daught

the palestinian christian from bethlehem. he was inspired to rearrange the traditional christmas, major scene to present was buried under rubble. virgin mary in the historical christmas story, is joyous as she is tilting got down, and the baby is wrapped in a coffin, reminding us of the scenes coming out of casa. it's open for interpretation if you want to imagine the child being dead or alive, the star and the christmas story guides the 3 wise men to bethlehem and has been recreated here, but now reflects the realities of israel's bombardment. the host i'm still home because these are the 3 wise man who of prostate expensive gifts to baby jesus. instead, they are holding white coffins. this represents the world leaders who instead of helping people and gaza all sending them coughing for 12 months ago. it was a different scene. this is thought of helping build festive carts for christmas parade. the to a different cities in the occupied west bank, bringing joy to children. this year. people in bethlehem want to remind the wor

christians, they don't particularly look by and large like the christians here today. they were independent to the centerleft politically, not a super progressive on things like race interestingly enough. here's why they left. number one reason. if you haven't guessed what it is, they moved. number two, faith wasn't working for them. three they had other priorities for their time and money. there was some suffering. if there were some of that began to doubt god's existence. there were scandals in their congregation among the clergy. they didn't see the congregation doing enough food in the community. and of the messages were not relevant to their life. the group looks a little bit like some of the tangible reasons into some of the casualty reasons. there is clearlyea more friction that is here. bear in mind the algorithms didn't have the benefit. why would this group be willing to return i believe 52%, the number one reason, new friends. up to, movie and make new friends. lonely and want to make new friends. four, the child wants to go. five, friend invites me. a good

in, mean we see christians on in karbala in arbain. we see christians, christian leaderships of that region go and pay their respects to imam hussain, and so for the for the church in palestine, for the churches in syria and lebanon to give out statements against the zionist regime is is narrative that needs to be shown to the world. i don't think we see enough of this on social media as activists, and we have social media twitter storm today on on x formally known as twitter in which we will highlight, it's from 5 pm to 7 pm us central time, it's an international twitter storm that we're having, in which we will we will signify and highlight the role that the churches have played and the christian leadership has played in lebanon, syria and palestine. the world needs to know, the world needs to understand that this is a region where christians, jews and muslims. have coexisted for centuries, for centuries, and this is when when when rehber or when the palestinian leadership, the palestinian resistance, when they talk about a one state solution, when they say that it is possible, the

. ♪ christian: hello.hristian fraser, and this is "the context." >> it's also important to understand why the pause came to an end. it came to an end because of hamas. >> the cease-fire well and truly over. israel is blaming hamas for all this, saying it fired rockets early this morning and refused to release all the women it is all the. -- holding. >> having chosen to hold onto our women, hamas will take the mother of all thumpings. >> seeing black smoke coming out of buildings, looking out of the rubble of some of the building. christian: you have been warned -- israel dropped leaflets in parts of southern gaza instructing residents to evacuate as hostilities resume. more than 170 people have been killed, say hamas, in the first 12 hours of the bombardment. we will get the response of the israeli government tonight. why the negotiations collapsed. also tonight, charles iii addresses the cop summit i dubai in a tie sporting greek flags. how the approach to climate change device number 10 in the palace. an