Category Archives: Bethlehem area

VIDEO | Why are Palestinian Christians Leaving Jesus’ Birthplace?

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Tom Powers

Will you invest 12 minutes in a deeper understanding of the everyday realities facing the native Christians of Jesus’ homeland, particularly those of the Bethlehem region? Their numbers have been shrinking steadily over the past seven decades, and the reasons … Continue reading →

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Give Israel Your Unconditional Support… and this is what you’re supporting

Posted on September 24, 2021 by Tom Powers

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VIDEO | Recent Discoveries, Enhancements at the Herodium

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Tom Powers

A recent report from the Franciscans, via their Christian Media Center, highlights recent developments at the Herodium, the mountaintop palace-fortress of Herod the Great that dominates the landscape of the Judean Desert east of Bethlehem. New aspects of the site … Continue reading →

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I don’t have to boycott “Jeopardy!” after all

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Tom Powers

The show’s producers have issued a sort-of apology over the Palestine/Israel flap that erupted following last Friday’s Jeopardy! broadcast, 09 JAN 2020. If you somehow managed to miss the whole thing, SEE HERE… The explanation offered Monday on the show’s … Continue reading →

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Awaiting You in Bethlehem: Banksy’s Quirky “Walled-Off Hotel”

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Tom Powers

I have a certain affinity for the absurd. Not absurdity for its own sake, mind you, but the kind that instructs and illuminates, that comments upon our world and helps us grapple with the harsh realities it confronts us with. … Continue reading →

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Military authorities defy High Court, resume building Apartheid Wall at Cremisan

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Tom Powers

This is very much a follow-up to my previous post (q.v.) less than five months ago, whose celebratory tone has proved premature. It now appears that the Israeli military authorities have decided to ignore an April ruling by the nation’s High … Continue reading →

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UPDATED | Cremisan: final verdict says ‘no’ to the wall

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Tom Powers

Sometimes, in the context of their ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people, the State of Israel–despite itself–actually manages to do something good. All too often, it simply means not doing something bad that they were planning to do. And, when … Continue reading →

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