ER Editor: Al Jazeera also picked this up. See —
Jerusalem Patriarch, churches say Christian Zionism threatens Christianity
Senior Christian leaders in Jerusalem have issued a warning against outside interference threatening the unity and future of Christianity in the Holy Land, singling out “Christian Zionism” and political actors linked to Israel.
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The church leaders warned that these efforts have found support among “certain political actors in Israel and beyond”, accusing them of pushing an agenda that could undermine the Christian presence not only in the Holy Land but across the wider Middle East.
Worth reading in its entirety.
Somewhere we feel this is a huge admission, far bigger than at first glance. Notice the number 17 crops up. We invite readers to go down the rabbit hole of Druze Christianity and the true identity of Trump’s uncle, JFK (see this to begin). Druze Christianity has a distinct geography and cultural identity attached to it, with its own genetic lineage. The Zionist Greater Israel project in that region is, we believe, no accident. Was it a project of hunt-to-the-point-of-extinction against Druze Christians? Crazy perhaps, but this is a smell we’ve been getting in our research. Libya is also an important country in this regard. There are so many dots to connect.
Oh, and Trump is no Zionist. It’s a ploy to mislead. Theatre at its finest, yet people believe it. ‘Judeo-Christian’ may be a manufactured phrase ready to explode.
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Holy Land patriarchs denounce ‘Christian Zionism’ as a ‘damaging ideology’
Jerusalem’s Christian leaders say Zionist movements claiming to represent Holy Land Christians outside Church authority ‘sow confusion’ and ‘harm the unity’ of ‘the flock.’
ANDREAS WAILZER for LIFESITE NEWS
The Christian Patriarchs of the Holy Land have condemned “Christian Zionism” as a “damaging ideology” that threatens the unity of Christians.
The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem issued a statement dated January 17, in which they stressed that only the Christian Churches represent Christians in the Holy Land. The group consists of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant bishops in Jerusalem, including the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa.
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.Amir Levy/Getty ImagesU.S. citizens: Tell Congress to stop Israel from stealing Shepherd’s Field in Bethlehem from Christians
“Recent activities undertaken by local individuals who advance damaging ideologies, such as Christian Zionism, mislead the public, sow confusion, and harm the unity of our flock,” the statement reads. “These undertakings have found favor among certain political actors in Israel and beyond who seek to push a political agenda which may harm the Christian presence in the Holy Land and the wider Middle East.”
“Holy Scripture teaches us that ‘we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another’ (Romans 12:5),” the group continued. “To claim authority outside the communion of the Church is to wound the unity of the faithful and burden the pastoral mission entrusted to the historic churches in the very land where our Lord lived, taught, suffered, and rose from the dead.”
“The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches further note with concern that these individuals have been welcomed at official levels both locally and internationally. Such actions constitute interference in the internal life of the churches and disregard the pastoral responsibility vested in the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem.”
“The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem reiterate that they alone represent the Churches and their flock in matters pertaining to Christian religious, communal, and pastoral life in the Holy Land,” the patriarchs stressed.
While the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem did not specify which Christian Zionists “have been welcomed at official levels both locally and internationally,” they may be referring to an event organized by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in early December last year, where a delegation of 1,000 Protestant pastors from the U.S. met in Jerusalem. The goal of the event was to strengthen the “Judeo-Christian alliance” and the U.S.-Israel alliance in the face of the growing opposition to Zionism in the United States and other Western nations.
In their statement, the Christian patriarchs of Jerusalem stressed that it is only they, and not Christian Zionists from the U.S. or elsewhere, who represent the Christians in the Holy Land.
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