Commentary: Innocent families of all stripes, Israeli Jews and Christians, Palestinian Muslims and Christians, hunker down in fear. And if rockets and air strikes are not enough, rival mobs are taking to the streets.
Jordan's king appealed Sunday to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence to "rebuild trust and confidence" in the possibility of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
When President Donald Trump announced in December he would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and call for the U.S. embassy to be moved there, some of his loudest cheerleaders were American evangelicals.
Israel's transportation minister is pushing ahead with a plan to dig a railway tunnel under Jerusalem's Old City ending at the Western Wall with a station named after President Donald Trump.
President Trump’s embrace of evangelical politics, a shooting at a Texas church, a wedding cake that a Christian baker refused to make and the status of Jerusalem also grabbed headlines.
Trump did not make his Jerusalem announcement out of his desire for Mideast peace, his respecting the views of most Americans, or safeguarding U.S. interests.
Book Review: In this time and this season, as we remember the infant born in a cave, the one who would bring peace on earth, good will to all, we might look to Bethlehem and see that its future is our future.
Pope Francis met with Jordan's King Abdullah II at the Vatican, two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital provoked outrage in the Middle East.