As the American Jewish community debates the pros and cons of a growing relationship between Jews and Christian supporters of Israel, the courtship is quietly growing more intimate.
On college campuses across the United States, Christian students are asking to join efforts to "make the case for Israel" alongside their Jewish counterparts, and this week their requests will begin to materialize.
A group of Christian Zionist students at a California university, will be trained this week in how to defend Israel in the face of campus attacks.
The training at California State University, Bakersfield is the first step toward establishing a college chapter of Christians United for Israel, a year-old organization based in San Antonio, Texas started by Evangelical Pastor John Hagee to rally Christians around support for Israel. The chapter will be the first of its kind. The hope is to establish similar "CUFI on Campus" chapters on college campuses across the United States.
Over the last few years, Hagee, author of several books about biblical prophecy and an opponent of territorial concessions to the Palestinians on biblical grounds, has a the face of the Christian Zionist movement, building close ties with several key Jewish organizations such as the ...   more »

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Reaffirming our commitment to the 2005 U.S.-EU Summit Declaration on Enhancing Transatlantic ...   more »

CBNNews.com - The U.S. Senate is looking to pass legislation on Tuesday that many believe will take away the right of Christians to take a biblical stance on homosexuality, yet Americans nationwide have moved to counter the motion.
The National "Hate Crimes" Petition Day was organized by Repent America to get Christians to defeat the newly proposed laws by calling, faxing, and emailing U.S. Senate members involved in the process.
Homosexuality, abortion, and evolution are three moral issues that Repent America addresses from a biblical perspective.
"Those who hate God are working to criminalize those who love Him, and they are making great strides to see that it happens," stated the director of Repent America, Michael Marcavage. "We must not remain silent as our liberty to freely speak the Word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ is being threatened by those who are framing mischief by a law."
Gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability are new categories added to the broader federal hate crime legislation by the U.S. House of Representatives, who voted to pass it on May 3.
Race, color, religion or national origin are the initial categories included in the hate crime law.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey - Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat — where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood — in an appeal for action on global warming, Greenpeace said Wednesday.  
Turkish and German volunteer carpenters are making the wooden ship on the mountain in eastern Turkey, bordering        Iran. The ark will be revealed in a ceremony on May 31, a day after Greenpeace activists climb the mountain and call on world leaders to take action to tackle climate change, Greenpeace said.
"Climate change is real, it's happening now and unless world leaders take urgent, decisive and far-reaching action, the next decades will see human misery on a scale not experienced in modern times," said Greenpeace activist Hilal Atici. "Those leaders have a mandate from the people ... to massively cut greenhouse gas emissions and to do it now."
Many countries are struggling to address global and national standards for carbon emissions. U.N. delegates are meeting this week in Germany to prepare for December negotiations on a new set of international rules for controlling emissions. The new accord would succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which ends in 2012.
Climate change ...   more »