Trump's Backing of Israeli Settlements Gives U.S. Evangelicals Another Gift Ahead of 2020 Election

Trump had already tightened his bond with his pro-Israel constituency by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital in 2017, moving the U.S. embassy in 2018 and endorsing Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights

Senior Israeli Security Official Blasted for Calling Settlements Fulfillment of 'Divine Promise'

Left-wing Front for the Protection of Democracy complains to Civil Service Commission over remarks made by National Security Council Deputy Director Reuven Azar at a Christian media conference

Top Netanyahu Aide Urges Evangelicals to Fight to Protect West Bank Settlements

'The revival of the Jewish people in the land of Israel is a divine promise being fulfilled,' deputy national security adviser, a Foreign Ministry employee, says at event for Christian media

Trump Didn't Think He Could Ever Lose the Evangelical Vote — but Then He Abandoned the Kurds

For the first time since entering the White House, Donald Trump has encountered significant criticism from evangelical leaders. Does the president have reason to worry about his own ‘base’?

Pro-Trump and Biased Toward Israel? These U.S. Evangelicals Are Challenging the 'Base'

Groups like Evangelicals 4 Justice and Freedom Road are pushing back against the conventional thinking of how evangelicals vote — and while they remain on the fringe, they are gaining progressive momentum

'Netanyahu Is a Rock Star:' The Evangelicals Harvesting Land in Settlements Israel Hopes to Annex

Evangelical support for Israel goes back decades, but recent moves by Trump and Netanyahu have strengthened the group, leaving others suspicious of their intentions

Can Trump Change Course on Iran and Still Keep Evangelicals Onboard?

Contradictory signs have started to emerge from the White House about its Iran policy, but evangelicals are confident the U.S. president will not do anything to jeopardize Israel’s security

Analysis Meet Donald Trump’s Least ‘Disloyal’ Jews

Before Trump, the last thing a U.S. president working to win over American Jewry would do is embrace a Messianic Jew, but not anymore. Trump’s presidency has ushered in a new era for ‘Jews for Jesus’

Opinion Too Many Jews and Israelis See White Evangelicals as One-dimensional Messianic Caricatures

Yes, Israel and Jews figure prominently in the religious imagination of America's 60 million white adult evangelicals. But it's not all about the Second Coming

Kushner Reassures Evangelicals: Israel's Security a Priority in Trump Peace Plan

Jared Kushner met with Christian evangelical leaders as part of a week-long effort by senior officials to shore up support for Trump among evangelical pro-Israel activists

Editorial The Evangelical Bear Hug

Trump Rolls Out the Big Guns for pro-Israel Evangelicals' Confab Ahead of 2020

In a sign of evangelical voters’ importance to his campaign, the U.S. president is sending five senior advisers to a Christian pro-Israel gathering

Famed Exorcist's Festival Draws Thousands From Around the World to Nazareth

Followers from as far as Haiti, Tanzania and the Czech Republic gathered at Mount Precipice for a chance to see and even be healed by the popular Nigerian TV figure T.B. Joshua

Nigerian Televangelist T.B. Joshua Is Coming to Nazareth, and Locals Are Furious

Temitope Balogun Joshua, arguably one of the most popular TV figures in Africa and Latin America, is set to hold two events at a Christian site in the city

A Year After Embassy Move, U.S. Evangelicals Look for New Israel Challenge

Christian Zionists spent decades lobbying for the embassy to be relocated to Jerusalem, but now that goal has been achieved without setting the Arab world on fire, what’s next on the agenda? Good question, say evangelical leaders

Why Muslim and Arab Countries Are Working So Hard to Win Over U.S. Evangelicals

The visit by a group of American pastors to Azerbaijan this week is the latest instance of outreach from the Muslim world, following prior visits to Egypt, the UAE, Jordan and Saudi Arabia — and it is not all about gaining access to the Trump administration

The Million Dollar Question: With Their Rabbi Gone, Will Evangelicals Still Open Their Wallets to Israel?

Yechiel Eckstein built a billion dollar philanthropic empire by being the first to tap into Christian love for Israel. Will his daughter be able to sustain the momentum now that he's gone?

Inside the Evangelical Money Flowing Into the West Bank

A Haaretz investigation reveals that Christian groups have invested up to $65 million in projects in the ‘Biblical Heartland’ over the past decade. That doesn’t include services they provide free of charge, like volunteer laborers

Opinion Hitler in Brasilia: The U.S. Evangelicals and Nazi Political Theory Behind Brazil's President-in-waiting

Mix up fascist geopolitics, Pat Robertson's LGBT hate, Bannon's nationalism and Putin's shills and you get Jair Bolsonaro, who's nostalgic for the U.S.-backed dictatorship that tortured and killed thousands of leftists - and he's about to come to power

The Battle for Young Evangelicals' Views on Israel Could Determine the Future of U.S. Policy

Millennial Evangelicals are not as automatically supportive of Israel as their parents' generation was. Evangelical groups are taking action - some trying to secure young Evangelicals' love of the Jewish state, others to get them to learn about Palestinians

More Than 6,000 pro-Israel Evangelicals to March in Annual Jerusalem Parade

Participants dress in their countries' traditional garb and carry their national flags, while local Israelis watch one of the city's most colorful events of the year

Opinion Why Does Ben Shapiro Sound Like a Christian Evangelical on Abortion?

When conservative star pundit Ben Shapiro weighed into the abortion debate, he reproduced Christian denominations’ extremist positions rather than the centuries-long, nuanced, case-by-case Jewish tradition. That’s a shame – but no accident

Billy Graham's Body to Make Ceremonial Journey From Mountain Chapel to Charlotte

The procession is part of more than a week of mourning for 'America's Pastor,' culminating with Graham's burial next week at his library in Charlotte

Billy Graham, Evangelical Preacher and Adviser to U.S. Presidents, Dies at 99

Dubbed 'America's pastor,' Graham revitalized evangelicalism in the U.S.

Postcards From Armageddon: Trump-touting Tourists Come Out in Droves to See the End of the World

A visit to the hot spot where evangelicals believe the end-of-days battle will play out has Christian tourists in, well, raptures

American Christian Organizations Split in Response to Trump's Jerusalem Move

Pope Francis expresses 'deep concern' while evangelical Liberty Council congratulates Trump on keeping his promise

Opinion We American Christians Welcome Trump's Obedience to God's Word on Jerusalem

Donald Trump is advancing the most biblically historic initiative of his presidency. It means Judeo-Christian America can say again: 'Israel – We’ve got your back'

In Generational Shift, Millennial Evangelicals Not as Supportive of Israel

New survey shows majority of American, young Evangelicals believe 'Christians should do more to love and care for the Palestinian people'

Learning From an Evangelist About Israel

My interlocutor on the plane could tell me why immigrants receiving state support need Christian help and the dangers Israel faces even though God promised the land to the Jews.