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VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis and global faith leaders joined forces on Monday at the Vatican in an interreligious appeal for urgent action for the environment.
Predictably enough, the World Council of Churches has, yet again, joined the propaganda war against Israel. The WCC, an umbrella organization of 350 Protestant and Orthodox Churches with a long history of demonizing the Jewish state, did this soon after rockets fired by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad rained down on Israel, forcing millions of people to hide in bunkers, safe rooms, and apartment stairwells throughout the country. Some of the rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, from which Israel withdrew in 2005, fell short of their Jewish targets in Israel and killed Palestinian children t...
The Vatican and the Temple vessels (Part 1) January 10, 2021 in Opinion Hebrew scriptures: Nesanel Gants Is there any substance to the claim that the church has in its possession vessels from the holy Temple? Rabbi Yonasan Shtencel of Jerusalem never imagined that his Talmud learning would lead him to explore the age-old mystery surrounding the disappearance of the vessels of the Beis Hamikdash, the Holy Temple. Are they really hidden in the catacombs of the Vatican in Rome? Rabbi Shtencel is the owner of a successful pharmaceutical company, and is fortunately able to spend much of his time ...