Israel Archives - Universal Life Church Monastery Blog
October 23rd, 2023
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has come to violence in the Middle East, capturing the world's attention. As the conflict descends into frightening and uncertain times, how are the world's faithful reacting?
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October 16th, 2023
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Vatican’s representative in Jerusalem, offered himself to be delivered as a hostage to Hamas in exchange for the release of the children currently being held captive.
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October 9th, 2023
Violence has once again erupted in Gaza, resulting in hundreds dead, even more displaced, and reignited fears of full scale warfare in the region. We examine the religious history of this deep-rooted conflict.
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April 29th, 2021
A Christian man went undercover in Jerusalem, posing as a rabbi but secretly working to convert Jews to Christianity. He even performed circumcisions and had his wife claim to be the daughter of Holocaust survivors.
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December 10th, 2020
In a fitting conclusion to 2020, the former head of the Israeli Space Defense program turned some heads when he recently said that there is a secret underground base on Mars with both human and alien representatives.
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January 22nd, 2019
Amid the media firestorm surrounding the standoff between students from a Catholic high school and a Native American man, the role that Black Israelite protesters played in starting the conflict was largely overlooked.
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May 17th, 2018
An unlikely ally of Israel has emerged: evangelicals. Indeed, few cheered the recent U.S. Embassy move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem louder than evangelical Christians in the United States.
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January 30th, 2018
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is capable of being reignited at any moment. Just as tensions appeared to be cooling off, a pair of international cosmetic companies inadvertently revamped the hostilities.
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January 17th, 2018
Famous Jewish comedian and actor Jerry Seinfeld is under fire after a visit to Israel earlier this month. The outrage began when he took his family to a so-called “anti-terror fantasy camp” in Jerusalem’s West Bank.
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