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Muslims Throw Christians Out Of Jerusalem

By on September 1, 2014 in Featured, General

By Theodore Shoebat

A Christian church has been driven out from Jerusalem by Muslims. After so many harassments and threats, the church had no choice but to leave. The pastor, Steven Khoury, said:

It was very emotional, because a lot of our people really started to grow there… Most of the growth happened in Shofat because of the persecution.

The church was founded in 2007, and within this same year Muslim tried to burn it down. The pastor remembers the fire and its ineffectiveness:

It only burned a few of our playground sets and didn’t reach the building

Then there was then also vandalisms, of which the pastor said:

These were all spread out over a two- or three-year period, to let us know that we were not welcome there

The violence really began to intensify after the church, through government approval, got a road sign identifying the location of the church:

When we did that, it took everything to the next level. The landlords were now being threatened. The landlords were being told, “How dare you do this, this is a disgrace to Islam. If you don’t do anything about this, we will.”

When the church rented a building for an event, Muslims came and vandalized cars, the road side sign was torn.

After so many bombardments, the church has now left.

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  • Jennifer

    So sad…

  • Stephen Dalton

    James, the reason why the indigenous Christians don’t like the evangelical Christians is that the evangelicals are snobbish toward them. They don’t consider the native Christians to be ‘good enough’ because they’re not Protestant or believers in dispensationalism. When evangelical Protestant dispensationalist bring pilgrims or tourists into the Holy Land, they tend to avoid the indigenous Christians, except to proselyte them away from their faith, which the mostly American evangelicals regard as inferior or false. If the ignorant Americans would realize that these ancient churches are true churches that date back to the time of the apostles, and aid them, without sheep stealing from them, a lot of the anger, bitterness, and hatred would evaporate over time.

    • Steve Smith

      Stephen. you took the words right out of my mouth. Evangelicals hold us Orthodox, in contempt we worship Idols in their twisted eyes. and even aid the moslems against us.

      • Stephen Dalton

        Steve, how do the Evangelicals aid the Muslims against the ancient Mid-Eastern churches?

        • Rapheal Sebastian

          The Protestants aided, funded, traded and gave material aid to the muslims during the Crusades based on their hatred of the Catholic Church. Currently when evangelizing in the Mid-East they use the tactic of proclaiming that the Orthodoxy and ancient Churches are idolaters, pray to statues, worship the Blessed Virgin Mary, worship saints, do not read the bible and are not Christian. You can also see it here, in so many posts being repeated over and over again.

          • Stephen Dalton

            Raph, the Protestants didn’t come into existence until 300 years after the crusades were over. I think you meant the Protestants gave aid to the Muslims during and after the Reformation period, yes? That I already knew. BTW, do you have any links to stories about Protestant organizations that are doing this dirty work today?

          • Rapheal Sebastian

            Stephen, yes, during and after the formation of the Protestant heresy. Specifically during the 15th Century Crusades were fought against the Ottoman Empire starting in 1396 AD. Which followed by the Hussite Crusades 1420 – 1431 AD. There were several other minor Crusades called to fight against the heretical sects prior to the beginning of Luther’s Protestant heresy.

            The Battle of Lepanto 1571 AD was fought once again against the Turks, this is where we saw Protestant complicity with the muslims. Also at as late as the 17th Century at the Battle of Vienna 1683 AD saw more Protestants taking the side of the muslims.

        • Steve Smith

          Evangelicals are Gnostic and iconoclastic, Just like the moslems
          they even deny the holy cross. they hand out bibles without a cross because icons are idols just like the moslems belive.

          • Stephen Dalton

            Steve, you’re right about the Protestants being Gnostic and iconoclastic. They claimed to have ‘recovered’ doctrines that were ‘suppressed’ by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches for centuries, but their great ‘hero’s’ Luther, Calvin, and Co. recovered them from centuries of darkness. Funny, all the cults like the Jehovah’s Witnesses make the same claim, yet all their ‘truths’ are different, just like the Protestant truths! The only thing these folks agree on is they hate the ancient churches, especially the Catholic. If they had more exposure to the other ancient churches, they would despise them too.
            Not all Evangelicals deny the cross. Many Evangelicals have crosses on their churches. Some extreme sects, like the Primitive Baptists or some Calvinistic sect abhor crosses. But no Evangelical church that I know of will have a crucifix with the suffering Lord on it. They hate that!

          • Steve Smith

            They hand out bibles to moslems, without the cross so as not to offend them is make what I should have been more clear about.

  • Steve Smith

    James. Your views are typical of Evangelical out look, if you took the time to learn about Christian Orthodoxy, you would know that the Armenian Church is not Orthodox. They are non- calcedonian. Just because it is a Eastern Church does not mean it is Orthodox. You would also know that Christians under islam suffer from Stockholm syndrome.
    Orthodox, view Evangelicals with bewilderment, where are your Bishops , Priests, Deacons? Where is your Liturgy , the feasts and fasts. Honor to the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary and the Saints. James if you took the time to search the bible WE HOLD DEAR . You would find all this in the original Greek, and in the letters of the Fathers of the Church.

  • Steve Smith

    Here is another fact that may not know about more moslems are converting to Orthodoxy than Russians converting to islam got it from a moslem source.http://1muslimnation.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/islam-in-russia-2-million-ethnic-muslims-leave-islam-for-russian-orthodox-christianity/

  • Steve Smith

    If I came a cross as harsh I’m sorry James. I did not intend it ,so could you say that you are quoting an article. I’m a Rusin and I still have problems with English. and thank you for the good will.
    Stefan Davidovich.

  • Steve Smith

    Sorry for the misunderstanding.

  • Steve Smith

    If I came a cross as harsh I’m sorry James. I did not intend it ,so could you say that you are quoting an article. I’m a Rusin and I still have problems with English. and thank you for the good will.

    James, you are one of the very few on here that are reasonable. Most of the time when I deal with American Evangelicals it is difficult to get across to them that we are Christian and I am most times attacked. I wish that other Christians would do what you do, get to know us and then work together. the Russian Orthodox do work together with other Christians.

    • Rapheal Sebastian

      Without understanding the Theotokos, having a liturgy, the need for priests, bishops and deacons; unity is a myth. Protestants will continue to say that the Orthodoxy practices idolatry, Marian worship, etc etc etc ad nauseum ad infinitum. Until they realize and accept that the Orthodoxy is Christian and stop spreading lies, blood libels and vile repetition of prejudiced “understandings” based on half truths as evinced from pulpit sermons, books, comments on websites like these, supposed Christian media and all other fora; only then can there be hope of unity. Almost on a daily basis you see the same old oft repeated lies that have been refuted for the umpteenth time still being repeated on a regular basis. Once again, unity is a myth, and the Orthodoxy will stand on its own as it did in the past and for close to 2000 years.

      • Steve Smith

        Rapheal, People labor under the delusion that just because we wish to be good neighbors does not mean we will be in communion with them. To be in communion with the Orthodox you must hold catholic teaching and be under a canonical Bishop. To say we have the fullness of the catholic faith is not pride but love. It is love of Mankind that we must remind them of the boundaries of the Orthodox faith that we may mot cross.

        • Rapheal Sebastian

          Steve, I agree. Truth needs no explanation or further dissecting. God Bless, you my brother.

  • susan

    My heart is sad.

  • Stephen Dalton

    James, it does matter who started it. The Protestants by their Anti-Catholic, Anti-Orthodox, Anti-anything that’s not Protestant, are putting the Mid-Eastern Christians in jeopardy by their subversive actions. This attitude goes back to the early Protestants, who as Raph explains in his post below, aided and abetted the Muslims because of their hatred of the ancient Churches. The Evangelical Protestants need to rethink their very doctrinal core, because if they don’t, they will make the same mistake their ancestors did. Hatred of Catholicism, and the other ancient churches, is a part of the creeds and confessions of all the Protestant Churches. Until the Protestants renounce those hateful, bigoted creeds and confessions, there can be no brotherly love between us. And btw, all the statements made by us Catholics in our creeds and confessions against the false teachings of Protestantism is are true, so they won’t be repudiated.

  • Stephen Dalton

    James, of course wrongs have been committed by both sides. But the real issue is, who has the truth?

  • Stephen Dalton

    James, I pray for the errorists, but I’ll also condemn their errors, and teach the truth. It isn’t “silly bickering” to point out heresies that damn the souls of those who believe in them. As for standing against the Muslims, its been the Catholics and Eastern Orthodox who have beat back the Islamic infidels time after time. WITH were you Protestants? You were either absent from the battlefield or you were actually aiding and abetting the Muslims because of your hatred of the ancient churches. Yeah, we will pray for them, but we will never trust them until they reject their heresies.

  • Stephen Dalton

    James, the Catholic victories at Vienna and Lepanto is what crippled the Ottoman Empire and made it the sick man of Europe. The British merely picked at the bones of the Ottomans.

  • Stephen Dalton

    The historic Protestant confessions of faith are Anti-Catholic. Until those Anti-Catholic statements are removed from the Protestant creeds and confessions, how can you or any Protestant ask to be brothers? It’s not a matter of holding a grudge, it’s a matter of your side of denouncing the religious bigotry of the founders of your sects.

  • Stephen Dalton

    Reread what I just said above. Your Protestant churches are historically Anti-Catholic. I recited the Nicene Creed as a Lutheran, but Lutheranism is Anti-Catholic. Read the historic confessions of the Protestant Churches, like the Lutheran Book Of Concord. They basically all have the Apostle’s and Nicene Creed in them, but every one of them has bigoted Anti-Catholic statements in them. Some call the Pope Anti-Christ. Until the Protestant Churches denounce their official Anti-Catholicism, we can’t be brothers.