Palestinian Theology and the New Church Struggle
For the past few decades, a small group of Palestinian Christians living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem have convinced a growing number of Christians outside the Middle East that Israel is the primary cause of suffering in the region. These Palestinian Christians have been assisted by a growing number of so-called peacemaking activists in the churches they have influenced. (Read More...)
Man Arrested in London Attack
LONDON - British police arrested an 18-year-old man in the southern port of Dover on Saturday in a "significant" development in the hunt for the people behind a London commuter train bombing that injured 30 people a day earlier. Prime Minister Theresa May put Britain on the highest security level of "critical" late on Friday, meaning an attack may be imminent, and soldiers and armed police deployed to secure strategic sites and hunt down the perpetrators. (Read More...)
Mideast Weekly Roundup
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week announced Israel’s endorsement of an independent Kurdish state. As the Kurdish people in Iraq prepare for their upcoming referendum on independence – which Iraqi lawmakers oppose – Netanyahu lent his country’s support to their efforts. While he pointed out that Israel continues to consider the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) a terrorist organization, he added that the Israeli government “supports the legitimate efforts of the
