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The final prayer spoken at the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday thanked God but also touched on the historic and biblical significance behind President Donald Trump’s decision to officially recognize the capital of Israel by moving U.S. diplomatic headquarters from Tel Aviv to the “city on the hill.” The Rev. John Hagee, senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, and national chairman of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), gave the benediction following the dedication ceremony that included remarks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump advisors Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve...

Christians United for Israel congratulated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on securing his fourth term in office, expressing hope that the Israeli leader and US President Barack Obama would have better relations during this term. "The US- Israel relationship is central to the national security interests of both nations," CUFI spokesman Ari Morgenstern told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. "Unfortunately, we do not believe President Obama has been a good steward of this alliance and in general has created a situation in which our enemies do not fear us and our friends do not trust us." Christians United for Israel has...

Republicans voice support for Netanyahu congressional speech Top Republican leaders took to public and private channels Thursday to expose a coordinated campaign by the Obama administration to attack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his acceptance of an invitation to speak before Congress, according to conversations with multiple lawmakers and leading pro-Israel insiders. The statements, many of which were obtained by the Washington Free Beacon in conversations with leaders in Congress, come in the aftermath of a widely cited New York Times report in which Obama administration officials accused Netanyahu of breaking diplomatic protocol by agreeing to speak before receiving...

Egypt has offered to evacuate thousands of its citizens from Libya after Islamic State (Isis) released pictures showing 21 kidnapped Egyptian Christians paraded in orange jumpsuits. Egypt said it had no choice but take urgent measures on Friday with Isis expanding fast across Libya, its war-stricken neighbour. “We are helping them,” Cairo’s foreign ministry spokesman, Badr Abdelatty, said. “If they would like to come back from Libya, we are facilitating their return to their home country.” The Coptic Christian guest workers were kidnapped in Sirte, on Libya’s coast, by Isis units based there in two operations in December and January....

A reporter claiming to work for Al Jazeera was involved in a violent confrontation with Washington, D.C., police on Tuesday evening after he was ejected from a pro-Israel conference for surreptitiously videotaping attendees and events, according to eyewitnesses. Reporters identified as Matthew Cassel and Micah Garen were ejected from the Christians United for Israel’s (CUFI) annual D.C. gathering after they were caught infiltrating and clandestinely filming events closed to the press. The reporters, who claimed to be affiliated with Al Jazeera, were initially denied press credentials for the event due to what a CUFI official said is Al Jazeera’s anti-Israel...

“What’s wrong with the world is letting the terrorist attack in Benghazi go unavenged for 9 months!”

Sen. Lindsey Graham told a "cheering" audience Tuesday that if the relationship between the U.S. and Iran doesn't improve by the end of summer, he will ask Congress to authorize going to war."If nothing changes in Iran, come September, October, I will present a resolution that will authorize the use of military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb," the South Carolina Republican said, according to a post on CQ Roll Call, at a conference for members of Christians United for Israel today. "The only way to convince Iran to halt their nuclear program is to make it...

Sunday service jarred by leaflets urging rights for Palestinians. For the first time in the history of Cornerstone Church, pastor and TV evangelist John Hagee's sermon was interrupted by roughly a dozen protesters, who rained leaflets down on an audience of 6,000 and demanded an end to what they called the Israeli occupation of Palestine, before security officers removed them. The incident happened during the 11 a.m. Sunday service, which was dedicated to the “moral imperative of standing with the Jewish State of Israel,” according to a press release issued by John Hagee Ministries. Hagee began the organization Christians United...

I was honored to speak at the event and also covered it for CBN News. You can watch my report on the summit by clicking on the viewer below, and also listen to me discuss it in my weekly appearance with Michael Savage on the Savage Nation radio program by clicking here. [Link to Savage radio program--http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvHKShGGXX8] Here is a sampling from my CBN report: CUFI is now the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States with over 400,000 members nationwide - including chapters on college campuses throughout the U.S. "There's a passion and a heart for Israel for anyone...

Christians United for Israel (CUFI) seeks to support both Jews and the nation of Israel. One of the primary scriptures they stand upon is: "For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, til her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch." ~ ISAIAH 62:1 If you are unable to attend this event or you would like to do more to support Israel, CUFI requests you sign The Israel Pledge so your name will be joined with thousands of others from across the country and presented to our...

SNIPPET: "It is often said that ridiculing Christians and their beliefs is the last acceptable form of bigotry." SNIPPET: "Bringing it back to the secular level, the friendships I have developed with Israeli colleagues over the past six years, and especially my trip to Israel last November, have solidified my support for the country. As if I didn’t realize it before, walking through the besieged city of Sderot and seeing Hamas missiles literally stamped “Made in Iran” truly brought home the fact that Israel’s enemies are America’s enemies. We share a common radical Islamic foe that seeks our destruction. That...

SNIPPET: "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- via satellite -- was among the speakers this afternoon as the Christians United for Israel conference continued in Washington. First, here's my brief, and then some info on what CUFI delegates will be advocating on Capitol Hill this week: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the growth of Christian support for Israel is a sign of the "changing" relationship between the two religious groups." SNIPPET: "The message is that the U.S. should respect Israel's wishes if it wants to be more "cautious," said Brog, because "Israel has demonstrated it will make painful concessions...

The Bible commands us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6), to speak out for Zion’s sake (Isaiah 62:1), to be watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem (Isaiah 62:6) and to bless the Jewish people (Genesis 12:3). These and so many other verses of the Bible that have one overriding message-- as Christians we have a Biblical obligation to defend Israel and the Jewish people in their time of need.

CUFI on Campus by: Bethany Stotts, August 07, 2008 As Accuracy in Academia has documented, many campuses have a long-standing bias toward the latter half of the Israeli-Palestinian debate, with some textbooks going so far as to insinuate that Israel was created primarily because of “Zionist terror tactics” toward the British. Pastor John Hagee, founder of the pro-Israel lobbying group, Christians United For Israel (CUFI), expressed his own concern about the obstacles facing pro-Israel students on campus at this year’s CUFI summit. “For pro-Israel students, college campuses can be extremely lonely places. These students go to classes where professors teach...

Evangelical Split Over Israel Batters BushBy Larry Cohler-EssesThe Jewish WeekEvangelical Christians, long seen as a monolith in lockstep support of Israel, publicly fractured last week as two significant evangelical factions lobbied President Bush with criticism of Israel from opposite points of view.For the first time, Christians United for Israel, a major Christian Zionist group with strong ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, lobbied President Bush against the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — a solution advocated by Israel, the Bush administration and the pro-Israel Washington lobby itself.Meanwhile, some 30 Evangelical leaders, including prominent activists and intellectuals, publicly...

The National Council of Churches (NCC) is distressed that not all Christians share its animosity towards Israel. Preferring not to address its own demographic implosion, the NCC periodically lashes out at more demographically robust Christian movements, especially conservative evangelicals. In its latest fusillade, the NCC denounced the “Christian Zionism” of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), which recently convened its second convention in Washington for pro-Israel evangelicals. Newt Gringrich was among the speakers. “CUFI's position of uncritical support for Israel separates it from the Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox, and traditional Protestant Churches, all of whom support Israel while at the same time...

Breaking News Group replaces altered photo Print News Brief E-mail News Brief Tell the Editors A pro-Israel Christian group replaced a photo on its Web site after learning the image was doctored. Christians United for Israel, a rapidly growing evangelical group, had featured on its Web site (www.cufi.org) a banner showcasing a sunrise panorama of Jerusalem's Western Wall and the Temple Mount area above it. The group said it had not known the photo was altered to exclude the mosques on the Temple Mount. The mount is holy to both Jews and Muslims, and sensitivities over the site have...

So the LORD gave Israel all the land which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed it and lived in it. And the LORD gave them rest on every side, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers, and no one of all their enemies stood before them; the LORD gave all their enemies into their hand. Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass (Joshua 21:43–45). Christians United for Israel (CUFI) met at the Hilton Washington on July 19...

The Christians United for Israel (CUFI) kickoff dinner that my colleague from American Congress for Truth Brigitte Gabriel and I attended courtesy of Maj. Gen Jim Hutchens (he brought the EGGED (Bus 19 wreckage to America), retired Army chaplain member of the CUFI board at the grand ballroom in the Washington Hilton on Tuesday night was a real rouser. What a ‘Night to Honor Israel! The beginning of this week’s CUFI Washington/Israel summit. There were more 3,400 charismatic Christians and Baptists, dancing in the aisles, cheering all the speakers, singing both the US National anthem and Hatikva in Hebrew with...

More than 3,000 pro-Israel evangelical Christians will be in town next week for a "Washington/Israel summit" to push the Bush administration toward stronger support for the Jewish state. Starting with a banquet July 18 at the Hilton Washington and visits to Capitol Hill the next morning, the inaugural gathering of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) will showcase a deeper cooperation between evangelical Christians and Jews in the face of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's suggestion in October, often reiterated since, that Israel "be wiped off the map." Organizers say Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayalon, retired Israeli defense chief Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon...