![Left: Casualties from the Israeli forces fighting against the Islamist Hamas militants. Right: The aftermath of the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/136672.jpg?w=602)
Amid Israel-Hamas War, Local Christians Seek Righteous Anger and Gospel Hope
As terrorism leads to thousands of deaths, Palestinian evangelicals and Messianic Jews share astonishment, grief, and prayer for peace and justice.
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Should Messianic Jews Return to Israel from Russia and Ukraine?
Leaders of Russian-speaking followers of Yeshua discuss whether making aliyah is a commandment, a blessing, or a choice.
![Holding a microphone, Joseph Ntombura, presiding bishop of the Methodist Church in Kenya, prays over former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero (left) in November 2015.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/125668.jpg?w=602)
Most Kenyan Churches Ban Politicians from Pulpits, Except for Methodists
Evangelicals join Anglicans, Catholics, and Presbyterians in restricting campaigning during worship services.
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Biden Names First Muslim Religious Freedom Ambassador
(UPDATED) 12 Christian IRF advocates praise Rashad Hussain, Obama’s OIC envoy, for his credentials and credibility. Two USCIRF commissioners and antisemitism envoy also named.
![Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel on May 10, 2021.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/123711.jpg?w=602)
Rockets, Riots, Sermons, and Soccer: Christian Views on the Conflict in Gaza and Israel
(UPDATED) How a dozen Messianic Jews and Palestinian Christians are trying to minister across the divide as Hamas and the IDF war once again.
![Israeli Arab protesters hold flags and chant slogans protesting Muhammad cartoons published in France that they deem insulting and blasphemous, in front of the French Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 29.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/120276.jpg?w=602)
France’s Free Speech Makes Arab Christians Squirm
In conflict over Muhammad cartoons, French evangelicals rally behind their president’s defense of secularism. But brethren in the Middle East are torn.
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Pompeo: Why We’re Hosting the World’s Biggest Event on Religious Persecution
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo explains to CT why the State Department invited 100 nations and 1,000 participants to its second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom.
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Our November Issue: Listening Carefully
Nigeria’s besieged Christians ask if they are forgotten.
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China Bans Zion, Beijing’s Biggest House Church
Shut down after Sunday services, influential congregation had refused orders to install government surveillance cameras.