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21 December: Resolution 619: "Takes note" of Israel's complaint against Arab ceasefire violations. 1956: 2 November: Resolution 997: Called for an immediate ceasefire in the Suez Crisis, an arms embargo on the area, and condemned Israel's participation in the conflict as a violation of the 1949 Israel-Egypt General Armistice Agreement.
Throughout much of the Bible, Ephrath is a description for members of the Israelite tribe of Judah, as well as for possible founders of Bethlehem. [ 4 ] Ephrath, or Bethlehem, is connected to messianic prophecy, as found in the book of the minor prophet Micah : "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah ...
The Status Quo (Hebrew: סטטוס קוו; Arabic: الوضع الراهن) is an understanding among religious communities with respect to nine shared religious sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. [1] Other holy places in Israel and Palestine were not deemed subject to the Status Quo, because the authorities of one religion or community within a ...
Between 1969 and 1973, Ambassador College entered into an alliance with Hebrew University in Israel which had been negotiated by Martin. This undertaking commenced a five-year archaeological program with students from Ambassador College working on Dr. Benjamin Mazar 's excavation near the Western Wall of the Temple Mount .
Solemn Christmas celebrations in the Holy Land this year are suffused with pleas for peace.
The bedrock where Jesus is believed to have prayed. The Church of All Nations (Hebrew: כנסיית כל העמים; Arabic: كنيسة كل الأمم), also known as the Church of Gethsemane [1] or the Basilica of the Agony (Latin: Basilica Agoniæ Domini), is a Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, next to the Garden of Gethsemane.
Worshippers donned masks and kept their distance at Christmas Day mass in the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus. The service usually attracts ...
Steven Naim Khoury was born in Jerusalem. His father, Dr. Naim Khoury, is the founding pastor of First Baptist Church in Bethlehem. Khoury grew up in Bethlehem and attended Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, where he earned a bachelor's degree in pastoral ministry and theology. [2] [1] [3]