between the houses of the christians they were using christians as human shields. live on area c are much more secure that christians who live in the same town on a. >> so right there in one town christians are treated very different. >> yes. >> were going down the hill ways these are under different control. you can see some of the wall snaking over in downtown bethlehem. >> for christians here at sperry complex. christians are a minority in greater bethlehem. most christians have been pushed out. the muslim population in the christian population often clash. so it's not uncommon to hear shall we say unkind sediments expressed by one toward the other. >> one-time sediment is one thing, but for christians to be effectively pushed out of bethlehem, something more in unkind words. >> absolutely. what you'll hear 22 narratives paired what you will hear from the palestinian.of view is that christians fled because of history. and that's actually shifting the blame. so what's happened is that christians here have found it increasingly difficult to live, to do business. t

believe to be a direct legacy of first century christian culture. >> saint thomas christian churchesn today follow that ancient biblical practice of men and women sitting separately and women covering their heads. >> most remarkable of all, elements of the thomas christian liturgy are performed in the language of earliest christianity. >> there are still priests in kerala who chant the institution narrative, "this is my body. this is my blood," in the aramaic language, just the way jesus did at the last supper. >> what's compelling about the oral tradition about thomas going to india is just how similar all of the stories are. we don't often find these kinds of similar traditions in any particular region, particularly a region so far away from where thomas started. the fact that everyone tells the same story about thomas for 1,500 years suggests that there might be a historical kernel of truth here. >> according to the oral tradition, thomas sets off from kerala on what will be his final journey. the acts of thomas also says the apostle moves on. >> thomas moves to another kingdom. t

antiquity the latter returned in full force into the christian. in the immense st peter's we find the legend of its foundation expressed in the sentence and so i say to you you are peter and upon this rock i will build my church. the new building claim to be nothing less than the greatest monument in the history of the world time and again the builders dishpan it and down to it whether the immense vault would be capable of bearing the enormous. but will. the spirit of the age demanded a massive triumphant. as an old man received a commission from pope clement the 9th to design the entrance to the cast as some tangent of. the building was the most a limb of emperor hadrian and the triumphant entrance way over the bridge was lined with statues of the classical gods of victory many replace these with angels converting a pagan monument into christian. the angels hold the instruments of the passion. in their hands the road becomes a symbolic way of the cross or via dolorosa like the one walked by the pilgrims in jerusalem. converted it into a triumphal

helena gave christians places to practice christianity.here were no christian buildings in this land. christians met here on the mount of olives to commemorate jesus' ascension, but they met secretly, we're told, in caves. after helena, a structure is built on this site, and christians can come here publicly and openly to remember this important part of their faith. >> for a religion that had been illegal for over 200 years, it's a defining moment. >> she makes the holy land holy, and the churches that she built are ways of literally cementing in the ground christianity in the holy land. >> it reinstates it as the place where people want to go and remember jesus' passion. >> arguably, helena and constantine's biggest contribution to jerusalem is the church of the holy sepulchre, said to be built on the site they believed was golgotha, the place where jesus was executed, but did they get the location right? >> based on the archaeological evidence, this would be a logical place. it was just outside the city walls, and romans liked that for c

between the houses of the christians they were using christians as human shields.ho live on area c are much more secure that christians who live in the same town on a. >> so right there in one town christians are treated very different. >> yes. >> were going down the hill ways these are under different control. you can see some of the wall snaking over in downtown bethlehem. >> for christians here at sperry complex. christians are a minority in greater bethlehem. most christians have been pushed out. the muslim population in the christian population often clash. so it's not uncommon to hear shall we say unkind sediments expressed by one toward the other. >> one-time sediment is one thing, but for christians to be effectively pushed out of bethlehem, something more in unkind words. >> absolutely. what you'll hear 22 narratives paired what you will hear from the palestinian.of view is that christians fled because of history. and that's actually shifting the blame. so what's happened is that christians here have found it increasingly difficult to live, to do business.

a faithful christian.ndeed, he claims to be so faithful that he literally knows which political party god supports. >> it is by no means true for christian faith or any faith requires you to be a republican, especially in these times. so-called conservative christian senators right now in the senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage, when scripture says whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker. >> also important we stop seeing religion used as a cudgel, as if god belongs to a political party and if he did, i can't imagine it would be the one of the current president in the white house. >> tucker: ooh, he is a preachy little guy, isn't he? the best part is, he is likely the most faithful christian many political reporters have ever met. he might as well be st. paul. can't tell the difference. similarly impressed after "christianity today",ll bashing the trump administration for not admitting more refugees into the country, called for the president to be removed from office for being immoral

degrees of the christian presence and migration of christians from bethlehem in specific many of the christian bethlehem ites before 967 immigrated seeking job opportunities seeking better conditions other parts of the world including latin america the us the moment israel did its consensus all who were not inside lost their national id number thus. the continuing political factors coming from the 1st intifada the 2nd intifada and the war mainly the war encouraged many of the young palestinian families to immigrate so we are talking about 2 very important things the prevention of those christians who were outside before $96.00 to $7.00 to come back as palestinian citizens to live in the west bank and gaza and east jerusalem plus the political situation ensuing the building of the wall which by itself prevents job opportunities it prevents normal conditions this encourage the young christian families as well as the muslims but actually due to the fact that christians are less in number it was more recognisable unfortunately in 2007 the palestinian statistic department did its last con

i want to start with christianity today. an editorial calling for president trump's removal from office. your reaction. euros in your editorial that this might be a watershed moment for 2020, why? guest: i came back from a 27 city book tour. right in the middle of advent. which, in our tradition is a season of waiting and during and longing for christ. what iting for christ is was thinking coming home. all of a sudden cover this editorial appears from christianity today, a very established evangelical credible , mark galli, who i know, says there are moral issues at stake in the selection . not just political, but deeper. the reality of a president trump is what he is raising. me, -- what did jesus say? what did he mean? did he mean it? here's this person today saying these trade-offs, these transactional deals -- we like what donald trump is doing on some issues therefore we will ignore the rest. he says this is a gross in rowdy -- aaracter we are seeing gross immorality of character we are seeing. this is a powerful statem

christians over certain 86 percent. of christians of have left the wall is being blamed for that as well as illegal new or patients around bethlehem when we talk about the christian presence in there in palestine and in general and the christian presence in bethlehem in particular the political situation since the 1967 enhanced and then forced and encouraged the degrees of the christian presence and migration of christians from bethlehem in specific many of the christian bethlehem ites before 967 immigrated seeking job opportunities and seeking better conditions other parts of the world including latin america the u.s. the moment israel did its consensus all who were not inside lost their national id number thus. the continuing political factors coming from the 1st intifada the 2nd intifada and the war mainly the war encouraged many of the young palestinian families to immigrate so we are talking about 2 very important things the prevention of those christians who were outside before $96.00 to $7.00 to come back as pale

being, as a human evangelicals an christian i am an orthodox christian, greek orthodox.ind,supposed to be not demeaning like he is. that is very bothersome and troublesome. host: is it the tweets or the campaign rallies? what most concerns you? caller: it is a combination. ralliests, the campaign , he just cannot help himself for some reason to be mean and ugly towards others. when you don't have to. this is an out of powder springs, georgia. as an evangelical i have never supported donald trump for several reasons. i want to be clear about this. in the first place jesus did not teach us to be a person who belittles other people, who with himself up and put others down. he does that constantly. president trump is a christian because i don't believe that he acts like a christian should. that is not really relevant because i don't think the president has to be a christian, i think he has to protect us and protect our rights. to worship as we please in the united states. his policies are so bad for our country that more than approximately 25% of the american people are stil

when isis overran nearby mosul, tens of thousands of terrified christians fled, escaping to christianowns in this region until isis got so close they evacuated from here too. at one point, the terrorist group was just a ten-minute drive away from the christian town of al qash that sits at the base of a mountain. here praying to your god means planning for the worst. that armed bodyguard follows the priest everywhere. something the monastery's head monk knows all too well. he was in the nearby city of mosul when isis suddenly invaded five years ago. what do you think isis would have done if they reached this place? "wherever they saw a cross, they smashed it," he said." "they erased any traces of christianity. even the virgin mary. there used to be a statue of her. they chopped the head off and left the rest of the statue standing there. if they reached here, "he said," they would certainly have destroyed this monastery. before the u.s.-led invasion, the insurgency and isis, around 1.5 million christians in iraq. there are now barely 250,000. in fact, there are now more chaldean cathol

you want the jews and the christians to get together. what happens. >> i told the man i'd like to have a night to honor jerusalem and i told them what that consisted of and he looked at me like i had a communicable disease. suddenly they were just shocked. he said will have to have a committee meeting. what if this man is a friend and he actually intends to do what he said. so they agreed, we had a press conference the next day, the rabbi and i. when our picture came out in the paper the next morning, death threats started coming to the church, tell the preacher we will shoot him before he has ever has that night to honor israel. we had the night to honor israel and the building was packed. as i have said, there is enough tension in the room to give up brass doorknob a headache. we had a marvelous night. our choir was there and they saying hebrew songs, the hebrew was crude, it probably had him turning over in his grave it was so bad but the jewish people appreciated the effort. i gave a message about why christians should support israel

and we see how stereotypes are used to falsely justify attacks on dues and christians, as you say, christianse middle east, and one of the most sinister aspects in such developments is that religious affiliations often cross. there is a crossover with racial and cultural backgrounds, and that means that often muslims are demonised and indeed hated because millions of them have brown skin or come from countries that have been under attack by the west in recent decades. and i think that it's about time that we took action, because discrimination willjust amplify and grow and multiply. you mention that foreign 0ffice report, i mean, christmas the then—foreign secretaryjeremy hunt said that more had to be done about persecution of christians. this report came outjust before he quit that office of the foreign secretary. the report recommended that there be sanctions against countries that carry out this kind of persecution, and frankly, that report hasjust disappeared into the ether, nothing has happened. and that's one of the problem is, i think, with persecution of people of different faiths. th

, christian values of charity or contrition or mercy. his rhetoric. it's very divisive. and, jonathan, coming back to a point that nabila was making earlier about online hate, i'm interested in... why do you think that anti—semitism and islamophobia are often on the rise in europe? nabila was talking about france, but of course we've just seen a general election campaign in which both anti—semitism and islamophobia were big talking points. why do they often seem to be on the rise together? i don't think it's necessarilyjust online in terms of anti—semitism or any other kind of religious hate, and i don't think it'sjust in europe, either. if you look at the latest fbi hate crime statistics, jews were the most persecuted religious group in hate crimes in the us in the last study. in fact, between 2011 and 2017, jews are always top of that list in the us. and similarly, when we look at the persecution ofjewish people around europe, as you say, it's not online. in france, jewish people have been killed for being jewish over the last few year

they interviewed british, do you think christianity is in crisis in america?solutely, carley, and the reason for that is that most people don't understand that christianity is not nearly a religion, it's a world view, it is the fundamental foundation of everything that we understand of who we are as human beings made in the image of god and how we have to view the reality to which god presents us and christianity is about objective truth not just my truth versus your truth but rather a comprehensive world view, then we can understand that the truth of the god of the bible then tells us who we are, how we have purpose and we have to live our lives in accordance with that truth and the philosophy and understanding of world view, includes, church, family and our government and so our founding fathers also understood that when they created the declaration of independence and when they drew that up they specifically said the christian world view statement, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, they are endowed by their creator and

did he travel to rome to lay the foundations for the christian church? and could these really be peter's bones? >> [ speaking in foreign language ] >> november 2013, vatican city, rome. pope francis causes a sensation. >> 2013 was a year of faith, and as part of an extra kind of reward for pilgrims who had come, pope francis displayed these nine bones, and he's essentially making the claim that he's holding right there, the bones of the person who founded the church in rome: st. peter. >> the revelation of st. peter's bones makes headlines around the world. >> this is something that has never happened before. the vatican, this morning, publicly displayed what's believed to be bone fragments from st. peter, an apostle of jesus christ and the world's first pope. >> for most faithful catholics, they had no idea that such things existed. they'd never been made public, and they'd been kept inside in a private chapel for the pope and for his inner circle, so this is a very thrilling moment for -- for believing catholics all over the world. >> if these are the

you can be a christian and have conservative views and be a christian and have left leaning views. to say this is crack with evangelicals and president trump is completely inaccurate. social evangelicals of this country still stand behind trump. >> there was poll done recently that showed white evangelicals were willing to support and acknowledge a leader's faults when donald trump was president in 2016 when he became president, but in 2011 when they did the same poll and asked white evan squelicals about barack obama, they said they weren't willing to acknowledge and accept that person if they had moral failings. so there's total hypocrisy on the white evangelical ring of the republican party. they've joined in this marriage with the republican party thinking the republican party -- we've been told this a party of family values, and here they are supporting this guy equating nazis and klansman with good people. >> his support among white evangelicals is overwhelming, but it is not the case when it comes to black christians. why do you think there's such a huge divide here? >> beca

will they remain a small jewish sect, or will christianity stand alone?fforded by the death and resurrection of christ that also extends to gentiles, and he brings a saved christian to jerusalem in order to try to prove his point. >> here is my friend, titus the uncircumcised greek, and he's bringing him to everyone that says so what are you going to do about this? >> the only thing that counts is faith. >> when we read the acts of the apostles, it's quite clear that there's tension, and there's especially tension between james and paul. >> so if you were jesus' brother and this upstart came along preaching and teaching a different message from the one that you had learned from your brother, i imagine you would have felt immense frustration. >> what the council are witnessing -- >> my brothers. >> is the birth of early christianity. >> the process by which christianity and judaism become two different things is a process that takes centuries. that said, in my opinion, paul's decision is a critically important moment in that division. ♪ ♪ >> jews or greeks

informed christian of her decision in a letter. as for the fruit i did sleep on it and i reached a decision i'm very pleased about it i decided that the fruit should be left to disintegrate slowly. i thought of many other thing about saving the skin after the fruit is gone decorating death. that there is something pathetic and something beautiful in our need to preserve. private art collectors also faced the question of what to do about perishable materials. until krauss and her husband are collectors of contemporary art she doesn't seek expert advice when buying her work preferring to follow her own intuition instead. she says her artworks are like members of the family. this is nicole eyes in men where i love about this piece is. the artist's studio into our apartment issues that are difficult to deal with as a collector i mean the wife the tube of paint goes through the hole in the floor lots of organic materials and things that over time will definitely. it's challenges we have a lot of things in our collection that are definit

i have one with me here, active in the christian trinity.ocal christians. a very busy season, lots of tours. is that important? yes, very, christmas is all aboutjoy and humbleness and humility. having people from all around the world to celebrate this with us and be whether to show us that they know what bethlehem is and the birth of jesus christ happened here, it means a lot. it also increases the capacity of the city, and bethlehem where palestine as a country goes through its own challenges. we have been hearing that the christian community has dwindled quite a lot over time. why do creatures leave? living under occupation is a big issue. it is not easy to live here. the occupation precious people in so many areas. economically, but also it limits our movement, the feeling of injustice, prejudice laws that they apply. they all affect the presence of not only creatures but also muslims, the palestinian community, but christians are, there isa community, but christians are, there is a higher number emigrating. what about next year? do you f

republicans don't corner the market on christianity. christians lean to the left and right. this leans to the left. it is fine. you can be a christian and have social conservative views and be a christian and have more left leaning views. that's what we have here. to say that this is shows there's a crack with the social evangelicals and trump is inaccurate. social evangelicals of this country still stand behind trump. >> that's the problem. if that's true. why are they standing by him? there's a poll recently that showed white evangelicals were willing to support and acknowledge a leaders fault. when donald trump was president in 2016. in 2011 the same poll and asked evangelicals about obama. they said they weren't willing to acknowledge and accept the person with moral failings. there's total hypocrisy. they made joined in this marriage with the republican party. thinking the republican party we have been told 30 years this was the party of the family values. the party of morality. they're supporting this guy equating nazis and with good people. >> support among white evan

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a rival publication the christian post published a rebuttal accusing christianity today of, quote wheredaintle elitist posture towards their fellow christians that may do further long-term damage. now that prompted one of their top politics editors to resign this week. he wrote the christian post has, quote, chosen to represent a narrow and shrinking slice of christianity. that might be a good business decision short-term at least, but it's bad for democracy and bad for the gospel. he added, quote, christians sully the name of christ in their alliance with trump. cue the damage control. on christmas eve the president and first lady attended an evangelical service at southern baptist church they have previously attended where they were married and where their son baron was baptized. and next week the president is holding a coalition in miami. he's pushed their agenda on issues such as abortion, conservative judges and others. are these one-off defections or will it lead to more evangelicals breaking with trump? we're going to ask a history professor about that and much more. gold! nice r

she works closely with christian chinaman and his team. today she's coming to the studio to assess the way guyton work that was damaged. one of the things that is very difficult in art market is it's not fair. carol so you have to look at multiple markets it's kind of like corning actually it's being traded and there's a black market which is kind of like the private dark matter so are collectors trading it amongst themselves there's no records there's the dealer and so we work with the dealers and talk with the dealers and trying to figure out especially if it's an iconic work you know there's this irrational kind of element like what could this work be worth so it's very abstract and then there's the kind of transactional element what's happening at auction every day and globally and you have to combine all of that data the camel lies and most importantly look at the work right before was the average and the condition of the work right before it was damaged so that's that's one element i'm not swine discussion and that is totally of fidu

a lot of christians don't like that rhetoric but evangelical christians have very much stayed with the president. so this letter is clearly an outlier right now but it is very clearly getting under trump's skin. at the same time, you see him tweeting, attacking the publication. we have reporting, josh dawsey, my colleague, has reported that there are some advisors in the white house that wish trump would tone it down going after this publication. he's made it a bigger deal than it is. at the same time, you have christian leaders, evangelical leaders behind the scenes reaching out to the white house saying, look, this is not how most of us feel. so i do feel that this is sort of an outlier, at least right now. we'll have to see if that changes. but if you look at the past couple years, the evangelical community has been very strong behind the president and i don't think that this publication will necessarily change that. at least right now. >> we will leave it there for now. happy holidays to you both. rachel, david, thank you. >>> next, a standstill in congress over the president's imp

, which is insulting to christianity. did i summarize your point correctly, don? mr. clark: that is one of my concerns. while the court has not held that this presumption exists with respect to long-established and existing monuments, practices and approaches, and while it may not be religiously divisive to maintain those long-standing symbols, it certainly would be religiously divisive for a government to start erecting new ones. and so, i do not think the bladenberg cross case should be read as a green light that monument such as that 40 foot tall latin cross can be established by government in the country. that the context in which the i also think religious symbols are used is extremely important. for example, i would take exception with kelly saying that we need to protect against the threat of someone going into arlington national cemetery and pulling up the crosses on the graves for people honored in that cemetery. in that context, those religious symbols, crosses and stars of david are associated with the individu

muslims saw the marines coming ashore as supporting their christian enemies and in particular the christian president who was trying to hold onto power for an extra second term. in germany, tactical nuclear weapons were being prepared to be airlifted to the beachhead. the 82nd airborne division back in the united states was put on alert in order to reinforce the beachhead. so while there was something of a comic opera approach to it, in very real terms this could turn into a disaster. it was the first time u.s. combat troops ever went into a mission in the middle east, our first combat mission. or chile, it turned out well. only one army sergeant would die in the mission. he was killed with sniper fire later on, , not on the day. the marines were able to leave after a few months. i'll come back to that in a little bit. but it began a tradition of american combat operations in the middle east. and, of course, as we all know now, subsequent missions didn't turn out as happily as beirut 1958. in fact, the second marine intervention in beirut in 1982 turned out in a disaster and the death of ov

most of these arrested prisoners are converts to christianity, but also recognize christians, mainly evangelical christians who associate with converts are arrested, imprisoned if discovered like my own family. article 18 of the london-based advocacy organization focusing on human rights reported at least 14 14 christians currenty imprisoned facing sentences ranging from one to ten years in prison. and all deemed guilty as acting as national security weather out is they were just gathering together to pray and worship, which is their right by the constitution and international covenant of country which iran is a signatory. ambassador brownback has already mentioned that iran has -- human rights and civil and look right which compel iran to provide total religious freedom for all of its citizens, including the ones -- share that belief with others. but this is not the reality. if you don't stand up to the shia islam according to the interpretation of their rule, you are not, those freedoms are not in existence for you. this year in 2019, 70 christians have been arrested. at least 48 o

this is news live from berlin pope francis leads christmas eve mass as christians around the world celebrate the birth of jesus after a year that has seen the catholic church rocked by scandals francis uses his address at the vatican to urge christians not to lose faith. airstrikes killed at least 8 in the syrian province of it live 5 of them children regimes latest offensive against the country's last major rebel stronghold has forced tens of thousands to flee the u.n. warns children are bearing the brunt of the intensifying violence. and no midnight mass at notre dame and paris for the 1st time in over 2 centuries christmas services will not be held at the landmark cathedral due to renovation work to repair damage from this year's devastating fire. i'm amused of welcome to the program christians around the world are celebrating christmas marking the birth of jesus more than 2000 years ago at the vatican pope francis led the midnight mass at st peter's basilica his blessing emphasized forgiveness forgiveness not just for sinners but for the church itself after a difficult year in which sexu