Rev. Dr. Munther Issac of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem analyses Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas in this 13-minute video and agrees with him. After all, aren't the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank victims of a "Just War" or just another war on Israel's enemies?. This is from a National Catholic Reporter editorial : "Pope Leo XIV says just war theory is outdated.…
Why have so many Christian leaders been supportive of Israel while ignoring the plight of Palestinian Christians who have been killed in Gaza alongside their Muslim neighbors? Since October 7, 2023, Israel's response to the attack by Hamas, breaking out of the world's largest open-air prison (as described by Bob Simon of CBS's 60 Minutes in 2012), has been brutal on the population of Gaza. Over…
Rev. Dr. Munther Issac, a Palestinian Christian pastor, gives an impassioned 3-minute introduction to an Online Film Salon: " A Deafening Silence? US Church Leadership in the Face of Genocide " [click on the link to watch the 110-minute discussion described as: "Christian Faith leaders were pivotal in the civil rights movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, and the boycotts that ended apartheid…
Israel knows that it is losing support from young people, including young Christians who have been watching the genocide in Gaza by Israel, live on social media. The Zionist state of Israel's latest attempt to bolster support among evangelical Christians was to bring over 1000 of their leaders to Israel for the Ambassador Summit 2025 . Featured speakers at the event included the US Ambassador to…
Millions of American Evangelical Christians have believed that it's their patriotic duty to support the serial wars the US has been waging in the Middle East since 1991. They lean on the notion of "Just War" theory and blindly believe that Jesus would approve of this doctrine. We at We Hold These Truths are not pacifists, but object to those Christian leaders who explain away America's wars with…
Reporting from the Arab-American Festival in Phoenix, Arizona, Tom Compton with We Hold These Truths has some homework that you can do to educate those Christians who have turned a blind eye to their brothers and sisters in Christ in Palestine. The graphics for the card to educate yourself and others mentioned in the video are available here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/54MGs71P25Dd6q5d8 . You can…
One of the Christian Zionist cheerleaders for Israel has been John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, TX. Hagee's war prayer before the second war on Iraq in 2003 showed his war-willingness to turn his back on the teachings of Jesus (see: " John Hagee with Benny Hinn: Praying for War in the Name of Jesus "). This prayer was made by Hagee on October 8, 2023. Members of We Hold These Truths…
Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham has demonstrated that he is a Christian Zionist. On November 11, 2023, when he prostrated before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This 1 minute. 28-second video verifies this. Our post, " Franklin Graham Goes to Bat for Israel and Is Challenged " gives another look at Mr. Graham's fervent Christian Zionist theology.
During Operation Cast Lead by the Israeli Occupation Forces ending in January 2009, over 300 innocent, Palestinian children, such as this child from Gaza, were brutally murdered. Update: 2024: We Hold These Truths has challenged Christian Zionism for over 20 years. Christian Zionism’s influence on American politics is still powerful. The recent address by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin to the US…
A powerful retelling of Jesus' parable of The Good Samaritan is made by Rev. Dr. Munther Issac from the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, at The Way Christian Center in Berkeley, CA on August 11, 2024. Several things are remarkable about Rev. Issac's message. He tells the parable as a follower of Christ and as a Palestinian to a predominantly Black, evangelical, inner-city…