Rama Village in Upper Galilee has been the scene to many fights on a religious basis between Druze and Christians. Fights between youngsters involved in drugs and crime become the excuse for druze hooligans to attack Christians, just for the fact that they are Christians. This week, a Missile was hit at the local Catholic Church. Many Christians are asking why the Police cannot defend them in their own homes.

News Item from Ittim, Sunday, Feb 16, 2003

According to Riah Abu Asal, Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East, martyers receive eternal life: "Do not consider those that were killed for the sake of God as dead, but alive with their Lord".


Fasl Al-MaQal, Feb 6, 2003

A Palestinian Christian tells how Jesus changed his life: "Last year, I went to the Israeli checkpoint and gave a soldier the 'Four Spiritual Laws'. I know that the only way for there to be true peace is for Israelis and Palestinians to be totally changed by the love of Jesus Christ."

By Joel C. Rosenberg, World Magazine, Feb 22, 2003

Israeli forces arrested on Thursday the sole Christian member of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a Muslim group spearheading a Palestinian uprising, Palestinian sources and the Israeli army said.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Feb 6, Reuters

A war with Iraq "has every potentiality of setting back missions 1,000 years," according to popular American preacher Tony Campolo. The charismatic and controversial evangelical author and social activist was speaking at Vancouver's Missions Fest January 31. The following is an excerpt from a key portion of his address.

Canadian Christianity, Feb 12, 2003

When Rev. Fahed Abu-Akel was growing up in Kufur Yaseef in Galilee, in what used to be Palestine, he never imagined that his Christian upbringing would prepare him to lead one of the most influential mainline denominations in America.

"I heard the cry of the Palestinian Christians asking us to pray for them and asking us to have solidarity with them to stay on the land". "We need to say to Israel, 'We love you; we support you; we support your security; but what you are doing to the people in the West Bank is wrong,'"

By Andrew J. Skerritt The Herald, Published January 31? 2003)

A host of leading Christian clergymen and leading figures attended a mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Friday, January 31, to show solidarity with the Iraqi people in the face of rising U.S. "immoral and inhumane" war threats.

In a speech following the mass, Archimandrite Atallah Hanna ridiculed claims that the U.S. forces are amassed in the Gulf region to liberate Iraq.



Islam Online, Feb 3, 2003

Grace and Truth Congregation has been trying to get a permit to build a church in the Industrial Zone of Rishon Litzion, just south of Tel-Aviv. Ant-Christian Organization Yad LeAchim appealed to Israel's Supreme Court to stop the building.

Special For Come and See, Jan 30, 2003

For the second time in three months, a Jordanian Christian widow has been forced into hiding after a court ordered her to surrender her children to an estranged Muslim relative.
When Mrs Qandah?s husband died in 1994, a local Islamic court declared that he had converted to Islam years earlier. According to Islamic Law, this meant his minor children automatically became Muslims too.

Christian Solidarity WorldWide, Jan 23, 2003