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Christian leaders hold emergency summit in Jerusalem to confront global rise in antisemitism
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JERUSALEM: The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) convened an emergency summit this week amid growing concern over the global rise in antisemitism following the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023.
The three-day conference in the Israeli capital comes at a time when social media influencers are consistently pushing antisemitic hate to their millions of followers.
«Attacking the Jews means attacking the very roots of one’s own faith. It means fighting against the people who gave us the Bible. Jesus was Jewish,» ICEJ President Dr. Jürgen Bühler told Fox News Digital.
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Christian leaders attend the ICEJ’s emergency summit on antisemitism on Wednesday, June 10th, 2026 at the Vert hotel in Jerusalem, Israel. (Amelie Botbol for Fox News Digital)
«If you don’t fight antisemitism, you are sawing off the branch you sit on. For the church to survive, we need to connect to our roots, fighting antisemitism needs to be at the forefront of every pastor and every leader around the world,» he added.
One of the central themes of the conference is Replacement Theology, a doctrine that holds the Church has replaced the Jewish people in God’s plan.
«The Bible is full of God’s eternal plan which includes the Jewish people. Paul’s statement in Romans 11 that ‘the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable’ relates to Israel. This is a doctrine that goes contrary to what the New and Old Testament are teaching and that’s why we need to have this conference,» Bühler said.
«One cannot deny the Jewishness of the Bible. The most frequent word in the Bible is the name of God and the second most used name is Israel. Jesus was born in Bethlehem, he died in Jerusalem, resurrected in Jerusalem, rose to heaven from Jerusalem and he is coming back to Jerusalem. If you read the Bible it is so easy to see the connection to Israel,» he added.
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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee places a note in the Western Wall as Holy Week and Passover come to a close. (@USAmbIsrael/X)
Israel’s newly appointed Special Envoy to the Christian world, George Deek, addressed the meeting on Wednesday, while Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee are scheduled to attend the summit’s closing event on Thursday at the foreign ministry as keynote speakers.
In a recorded message broadcast at the summit, Israeli President Isaac Herzog thanked Christian leaders for mobilizing against antisemitism.
«We are witnessing a very disturbing surge of antisemitism all over the world. This is a major challenge for humanity. This is the age-old, perhaps the oldest plague in humanity, and we have to stand up together — thought leaders and religious leaders — and say, ‘No more,’ and teach people about the sources of this evil and how to counter antisemitism,» Herzog said.
«I believe that countering antisemitism requires a combination of three major elements: law enforcement, adjudication and education,» he said.
Vice President JD Vance, left, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog shake hands during a meeting at the presidential residence, in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (Leo Correa/AP)
«You, dear leaders, have a huge capability of fighting back, and I bless you. Truly, I bless you as the president of Israel for coming here and fighting back, for coming here and discussing how to fight back,» Herzog concluded.
Dr. Andrew J. Nolte, who launched Regent University’s Israel Institute in 2024, said students often repeat antisemitic claims, including the accusation that Jews killed Jesus.
«The answer from a Christian theological perspective is that we all killed Jesus, he died for our sins. There is a theological understanding of the guilt we bear for Jesus’s blood,» Nolte told Fox News Digital.
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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre dates back to the fourth century. (Archivio Università di Roma Sapienza)
While Israel has faced recent criticism over treatment of Christians – mostly at the hands of a few extremists – the country is seen as a beacon of freedom of religion in the Middle East.
As of December 2025, Israel’s Christian population stood at approximately 184,200 people, representing 1.9% of the country’s total population. The community grew by 0.7% over the previous year.
Arab Christians account for 78.7% of Israel’s Christian population and comprise 6.8% of the country’s overall Arab population.
Most Arab Christians reside in northern Israel. Among non-Arab Christians, 42% live in the Tel Aviv and Central districts, compared to 33.9% in the Northern and Haifa districts.
Christian pilgrims carrying wooden crosses walk through Jerusalem’s Old City towards the Holy Sepulcre church during the Orthodox Good Friday procession on May 3, 2024. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
Nolte said that Christians in Israel hold prominent positions, noting that the provost of the University of Haifa is a Maronite Christian and that Christian communities in the country report relatively high income levels. He also said that, in most cases involving civil rights and religious freedom brought by Christians in Israel, the outcomes have been decided in their favor.
«If you are comparing Israel to any Muslim country in the Middle East, the status of Christians is much higher. As a Christian, you are better off here than anywhere else in the region,» he added.
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Israeli Christians in Nazareth hold a Christmas parade on Dec. 24, 2025. (Eitan Elhadez-Barak/TPS-IL)
Christopher Kuehl, founder of Present Witness and co-host of the One New Man podcast, emphasized that biblical illiteracy among younger generations is fueling confusion about Israel.
He opened his remarks at the conference by citing a recent U.S. study on Gen Z’s alignment with biblical teachings and how closely their worldview corresponds with scripture, noting that only about 5% demonstrated strong adherence.
«Israel gets thrown into that ignorance, that biblical ignorance. Social media is what teaches children and Gen Z; they spend eight hours a day on it and go to church once a week for 20 minutes. How does one create a message in 20 minutes that will overcome spending eight hours on social media every day?» Kuehl told Fox News Digital.
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One Israeli pastor says one of the biggest challenges facing Israel’s Christian community is a low birth rate. Jesus King Church in Nazareth, Israel. (Photo: Pastor Saleem Shalash)
Pastor Matthew Earls joined the summit as part of Eagles’ Wings Ministries’ Israel Christian Nexus program, which focuses on young Christian leaders and gives them the opportunity to experience Israel early in their careers and build a well-rounded perspective.
«We want to teach biblical truth so that the church does not look completely different in the next generation,» Earls told Fox News Digital. «The greater mission is one of solidarity with the people of Israel, and of equipping people with talking points in the hope that dialogue can take place and lead to greater understanding, or at least mutual respect for one another’s positions,» he said.
Sacha Roytman, CEO of the Combat Antisemitism Movement, told Fox News Digital that Christians and Jews face many of the same challenges in defending their faith, history, and future, adding that those who reject Jews and Zionism also reject the Christian worldview because the two are aligned.
Orthodox Christians carry wooden crosses along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Suffering) in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Orthodox Good Friday procession before Holy Saturday. (Saeed Qaq/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
«I’m here to share this message with Christian leaders who go back to their communities empowered with more knowledge, more energy, and different tools to fight this battle,» Roytman said.
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As part of its research, CAM has examined how social media algorithms amplify antisemitic content and conspiracy theories. «We discovered that the algorithms are trained to deliver engaging content that upsets people and keeps them hooked. Often, it is anti-establishment content and conspiracy theories that fuel antisemitism,» Roytman said.
More than 200 theologians, pastors and ministry leaders from over 30 countries are attending in person, alongside approximately 3,000 online participants.
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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., has a plan to snuff out a multibillion-dollar global industry.
Scott is one of several Republicans racing to ram birthright citizenship tweaks through Congress after the Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling blocking the Trump administration’s effort to limit the right and President Donald Trump’s call for lawmakers to quickly respond.
Despite an increasingly crowded field of legislation, Scott argued in an interview with Fox News Digital that his approach to halt birth tourism could work, even with Democrats.
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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., arrives for a vote in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
«The whole concept of the 14th Amendment, that ‘under the jurisdiction thereof,’ if you are on vacation in America, you certainly should not have a child while you’re here and think in any way, shape or form that kid is going to somehow, some way be an American citizen,» Scott said.
«That’s just illogical. I would just say look at it from the mirror perspective,» he continued. «If you did that in any other country, would that child in that country become a citizen of that country? The answer is no.»
Scott’s legislation, which is still being drafted, would target tourism visas and any child born in the U.S. to a woman with said visa from becoming an American citizen.
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His legislation is «designed specifically to get to the president’s desk to sign into law,» a tacit acknowledgment that in the Senate, he will need Democratic support to put a dent into the issue.
«That means that Democrats cannot have any opposition to this notion that thousands of companies having hundreds of thousands of women come to this country to have a baby so that they leave with an American citizen,» Scott said.
«We should break that whole cycle, destroy it in its infancy by not allowing it to exist at all,» he continued. «And that to me is the best approach.»
Scott is one of several Republicans racing to ram birthright citizenship tweaks through Congress. (iStock)
Trump said he would prefer legislation over a «long and unwieldy» constitutional amendment, which has been floated by a handful of Senate Republicans, including Sens. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., and Rand Paul, R-Ky.
Tackling the 14th Amendment completely is something Scott said he’d do, but he acknowledged that it’s not «possible in the current political environment.»
«What is possible is for us to recognize that if you’re here temporarily, and you know you’re here temporarily, you should not leave with an American citizen as your child just because you gave birth on our soil,» Scott said.
Meanwhile, in the House, there’s another approach led by Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn.
Ogles, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, unveiled legislation Wednesday that would allow the government to bar pregnant foreigners from entering the United States.
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The Tennessee Republican says the measure, dubbed the Anchors Away Act, is necessary to crack down on the birth tourism industry, in which foreigners give birth on U.S. soil so that their children obtain U.S. citizenship.
However, the legislation faces steep obstacles to clearing Congress, and it is unclear whether the bill would get a floor vote in the House amid Republicans’ razor-thin majority.
«This is a conversation that I’m starting that I’m a champion of,» Ogles told Fox News Digital in an interview. «I’m working with the White House. And as long as it takes to get it done, I’ll be here to fight for it.»
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Ogles has also authored the Assimilation Act, legislation that would impose vast changes to the legal immigration system by ending birthright citizenship, requiring employers to implement E-Verify and scrapping the green-card lottery, among other provisions. The Tennessee lawmaker’s recently introduced Remigration Act would allow the government to denaturalize individuals convicted of certain crimes, including defrauding the government.
«What we’ve seen over the last several decades is that Congress, quite frankly, has delegated its right to legislate to the Supreme Court,» Ogles said. «So this actually creates the opportunity for Congress to do its job. To define what it is to be a naturalized citizen, to define who can and cannot come into this country, because as the legislative body, we are the ones that are supposed to make those decisions.»
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Desafío al Vaticano: los “lefebvrianos” ordenaron cuatro nuevos obispos y tensaron la relación con el papa León XIV
La Fraternidad San Pío X consagró este miércoles por su cuenta a cuatro nuevos obispos en una ceremonia en Suiza. Se trata de un acto “cismático”, según el papa León XIV, que pidió a esta comunidad tradicionalista que renunciara a su proyecto.
En una ceremonia en la pradera suiza de Écône, adonde asistieron miles de fieles de todo el mundo, la comunidad consagró a cuatro obispos: dos franceses, un estadounidense y un suizo.
El superior general de la comunidad, el sacerdote Davide Pagliarani, dijo en su homilía que se trataba de un día “histórico”.
“Dios me trajo acá”
Luz Dussan, una fiel colombiana de 57 años, viajó desde Estados Unidos para la ceremonia.
“Pensé que nunca en la vida viviría esto, pero mira, Dios me trajo acá”, declaró.
El padre Pascal Schreiber, la la izquierda, y el padre Michael Goldade llegan a su consagración como obispos en una carpa ante el seminario de la Fraternidad Sacerdotal San Pío X, en Écône, Suiza, el miércoles 1 de julio de 2026. (AP Foto/Baz Ratner)
“No importa lo que digan los demás del mundo. Estoy feliz de lo que ha hecho la fraternidad, de verdad que se merecen los cuatro obispos, porque realmente estamos creciendo. La comunidad latina sobre todo está creciendo en la fraternidad”, agregó.
Al seguir adelante sin la aprobación del pontífice, los dos obispos con que contaba la comunidad y los cuatro obispos consagrados en la jornada quedan de hecho excomulgados de la Iglesia católica romana.
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Sin embargo, al inicio de la ceremonia, el secretario general de la sociedad, Foucault Leroux, dijo que ellos consideraban “que todas las penas y censuras (…) son nulas y sin efecto”.
Quiénes son los “lefebvrianos”
La comunidad, fundada en 1970 por el obispo francés Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991), agrupa a unos 600.000 fieles, según estimaciones, que se rigen por una interpretación estricta de la tradición doctrinal y litúrgica.
Rechaza en su conjunto los avances de la Iglesia desde el Concilio Vaticano II (en la década de 1960), defiende un modelo de sociedad patriarcal y un ideal de Estado teocrático.
“Para mantener la fe, ¿acaso estamos rompiendo con la Iglesia? Este dilema es falso. Pertenecemos a la Iglesia, en primer lugar por la fe, por la profesión integral de la fe de la Iglesia”, afirmó Pagliarani.
La misa de consagración, de cuatro horas y enteramente en latín, se organizó al aire libre en la pradera de Écône, en el mismo lugar donde Lefebvre consagró a los primeros cuatro obispos de su comunidad, en 1988.
En la ceremonia, los cuatro sacerdotes yacían boca abajo en el suelo mientras se cantaba la Letanía de los Santos, antes de recibir la imposición de manos del obispo, el momento clave, seguido de la unción.
“Nada cismático”
Para el Vaticano, consagrar a un obispo sin el acuerdo del papa es un acto de insubordinación directa que conlleva la excomunión automática de los obispos y constituye un “acto cismático”.
“Les suplico desde el fondo de mi corazón: ¡reconsideren su decisión!”, escribió recientemente León XIV en una carta dirigida a Pagliarani, superior general de la Fraternidad.
En su misiva, el papa advirtió que, en caso de cisma, los sacramentos, como el matrimonio o la confesión, administrados por los obispos dejarían de ser reconocidos por la Iglesia católica.
“No es un acto de rebelión: es un acto que nace del amor por la Iglesia”, dijo el sacerdote Michel Rion, profesor de Teología en el seminario de Écône.
“No hay absolutamente nada cismático o contrario a la Iglesia en nuestras acciones. Esperamos que llegue el día en el que el papa vea esto. Para nosotros, ser cismáticos es lo peor que podría ocurrir, preferiríamos morir a ser cismáticos”, insistió.
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En 1988 el papa Juan Pablo II hizo un llamado similar a la Fraternidad para disuadirla de ordenar nuevos obispos. Fue en vano. La ordenación provocó una excomunión inmediata, que fue levantada en 2009 por Benedicto XVI.
La comunidad afirma estar presente en más de 75 países de seis continentes, con más de 750 sacerdotes.
La Fraternidad San Pío X es influyente en ciertos círculos conservadores, y cuenta hoy día con 751 sacerdotes, 264 seminaristas y cerca de 800 lugares de culto repartidos por 77 países.
No obstante, es muy minoritaria dentro del catolicismo, que cuenta con más de 1.300 millones de fieles en todo el mundo.
(Con información de AFP)
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One crew member missing after US Navy helicopter makes emergency landing in Arabian Sea
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A U.S. Navy MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier made an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea early Wednesday, leaving one crew member missing.
The incident happened at about 3:30 a.m. ET, according to the U.S. 5th Fleet.
Three of the helicopter’s four crew members were successfully recovered and are currently in stable condition aboard the George H.W. Bush, officials said.
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U.S. Navy assets in the region are actively conducting search and rescue operations for the remaining crew member, who has not yet been publicly identified.
Military officials said there is no indication the emergency landing was the result of «hostile action.»
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The cause of the incident is currently under investigation.
FILE – In this May 19, 2019 photo, an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter transports cargo from the fast combat support ship USNS Arctic to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during a replenishment-at-sea operation in the Arabian Sea.
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