Jordan Lenaghan

[Daniel Seidemann @DanielSeidemann]

Let there be no doubt about what is happening here: this is the Jerusalem Municipality fronting for the settler organizations in Silwan, in a blatantly illegal attempt to seize Church properties for the benefit of the settlements in Silwan.

I will not trouble you with the baseless pretext for seizing the property. I rely on the Church to do that.

But this needs be said: when thr biblically driven, messianic settlers of East Jerusalem covet property that happens to belong to a Church, nothing will stop the Government from using all their powers to seize that property.

The vulnerable Christian communities struggling to maintain their communal presence, and secure their properties, are expendable. Acceptable collateral damage.

Unless they happen to be end-of-days evangelical rapture mongers.

[Jordan Lenaghan @lenaghanop]

@RNS I think you’re missing the most puzzling piece of the story: Why the LDS Church was listed separately but the Jehovah’s Witnesses were not.

[Jordan Lenaghan @lenaghanop]

@marknorm It does!

[Jordan Lenaghan @lenaghanop]

There are many American minds that can’t comprehend it either.

[Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau]

The European mind can absolutely comprehend and recognize this for what it is: the personalization of power, the desacralization of democratic institutions, and the institutionalization of corruption.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

This is beneath the dignity of the presidency.

[שגרירות פולין @PLinIsrael]

Repeated harassment of Polish nuns at Jerusalem’s New Polish House in recent weeks is unacceptable; endangers people & property. Those responsible must be held to account. Effective prevention is a must. @israelpolice @IsraelMFA @GeorgeDeek

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: Israeli settlers and soldiers stormed the Christian village of Taybeh in the West Bank and confiscated three cars belonging to village residents.
https://t.co/QiOAbofNdn

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Jewish extremists attacked and spat on Father Firas Abedrabbo, parish priest of the Latin Church in the village of Ein 'Arik, near Ramallah in the West Bank, as he walked near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.

Father Abedrabbo filed a complaint with Israeli police. No arrest has been made.

[Jordan Lenaghan @lenaghanop]

@tylersyck I have a bust of Franz Joseph on a bookshelf in my study.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

A horrific headline. You can find it in Israeli media, but good luck finding it in much of the Western media.

[Jordan Lenaghan @lenaghanop]

@FrBMulcahyOP @DrFrancisYoung Remulak.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: Israeli settler terrorists are attacking the village of Al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank right now, setting fields on fire and attempting to burn down a home with a family still inside.

The Israeli army is preventing fire trucks from reaching the area.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

In the first few weeks of the war in Gaza, the use of captured Palestinians to clear areas of improvised explosive devices was seen as an obvious solution to a lack of sniffer dogs, a former Israeli soldier told 1843 https://t.co/glqJ3mcLr7

[Jack Nassar | جاك نصار @jacknassar33]

Israel refuses to register nearly one quarter of Births in Christian Families and Freezes Half of Their Family Reunification Applications in Jerusalem

According to data from the Israeli Ministry of the Interior for the period 2020-2026, obtained through the Jerusalem Legal Aid Center: 337 family reunification applications were submitted by individuals described as "Christians," regardless of the applicant's religion.

154 of these applications were rejected.

Registration applications for 419 Christian births were submitted between 2020 and April 30, 2026, out of a total of 16,730.

Registration applications for 102 Christian children were rejected during the same period.

More than 340 Jerusalem ID cards were revoked during the same period.

This is all without even mentioning the difficulties and obstacles the Ministry of the Interior puts in processing any family reunification application, as well as applications for work permits and visas for priests and nuns working in churches in Jerusalem.

[ZenitEnglish @zenitenglish]

🕊️ Bishop Rafic Nahra reflects on the situation in the Holy Land and warns about a “grammar of hate.”

Read more ⤵ https://t.co/b2xMNLlwUQ

[ZenitEnglish @zenitenglish]

⚠️ Christians in Lebanon, Gaza, and the Holy Land face war, humanitarian crisis, and challenges to religious freedom.

Read more ⤵ https://t.co/2UqHBnvQ8z

[Jordan Lenaghan @lenaghanop]

@hmkherman @AscensionPress The font choice is terrible and the spacing on this review page is awful!

[Jordan Lenaghan @lenaghanop]

@frere_ambrosius They do. Though the older woman who used to cook for the friars in Siena could give him a run for his money.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, intervened yesterday to prevent Israeli forces from halting a Catholic Marian festival in Taybeh, the last entirely Christian Palestinian town in the West Bank.

Israeli military vehicles entered the town in the morning, ordering organizers to stop preparations and firing a stun grenade near the site. A second vehicle later repeated the order, while drones and a helicopter hovered overhead.

Fr. Bashar Fawadleh, parish priest of the Church of the Redeemer, contacted church authorities, leading to Pizzaballa’s intervention with Israeli officials. Permission was eventually granted for the festival to proceed as planned.

The event drew consuls, diplomatic representatives, clergy, and local residents, marking the close of the Marian month dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

The Vulnerable People Project described the incident as “a warning to Christians worldwide,” citing mounting pressure on Taybeh’s community from settlers and the Israeli army.

Taybeh has faced repeated closures, land seizures, and attacks on property in recent years. Church leaders warn that escalating assaults on clergy, religious sites, and symbols across the Holy Land highlight the fragility of religious freedom and the need for stronger international protection.
https://t.co/tOCw1ygxty

[Jordan Lenaghan @lenaghanop]

@StMichael71 Didn’t the Holy See do the same with the Milingo episcopal ordinations?