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Building a Working Relationship with the European Coalition for Israel

On March 14, 2004, the pan-European Coalition for Israel was launched at a meeting of Christian organizations for in Brussels.  The organizations pledged support to the State of Israel in the face of rising anti-Semitism and anti-Zionist sentiment in Europe.  The caucus continues to work closely with the European Coalition for Israel.

 

Visa Assistance for the Christian Community
The KCAC held a meeting on May 12, 2004 dedicated to finding a consensus on the visa issue and Christians in Israel.  We reached a general agreement with the Interior Ministry.  Interior Minister Poraz pledged that new directives to end the visa crisis facing Christian churches and charitable organizations in Israel would be distributed to all employees of the ministry.

 

Educating Israel about Christianity

On January 21, 2005, the Members of Knesset sitting on the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (KCAC) attended a Day of Education co-sponsored by the caucus and the American Jewish (AJC). Caucus members participated in a seminar arranged by the AJC that was intended to end outdated and false notions of Christian-Jewish animosity. Representatives of the Chief Rabbinate attended and participated as well. KCAC MKs met with patriarchs of several churches to assure them of the government’s and rabbinate’s continued friendship.

 

Strengthening Christian Tourism to Israel

On March 9, 2005, the KCAC met with Tourism Minister Abraham Hirchson and Ministry Director General Eli Cohen to launch a joint initiative to increase Christian faith-based tourism. It was recommended that travel for Christian tour groups be subsidized by the government, a new Christian tourist center in the north be built and new programs be created for Christian pilgrims.

 

Building Ties with African-American Christians

On April 5, 2005, Pastor Glenn Plummer, a previous Chairman of the National Religious Broadcasters Association and one of America’s most influential black ministers, addressed the KCAC on African-American-Israeli issues. The caucus took the opportunity to reach out to African-American churches and communities and formally welcome them as friends of Israel.  Pastor Plummer proposed measures to improve relations between African-American communities and the State of Israel.  The caucus was of the opinion that African-Americans and the Jewish people are natural allies. The caucus provided Pastor Plummer with a letter inviting African-Americans and their churches and communities to join the people of Israel in the fight for freedom, democracy, and justice.

 

Strengthening the Status of Women World-Wide on the Basis of Judeo-Christian Values

On Tuesday, May 23, 2006, the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus met in the Israeli Parliament and launched the KCAC Women’s Council, a powerful union of Israeli and Christian women focused on advancing the status of women worldwide using Judeo-Christian values.

It was announced in the meeting that an Israeli board of directors in Jerusalem and an international board of directors in the United States will govern the Women’s Council through a joint steering committee.  MKs Amira Dotan and Orit Noked and former MKs Gila Finkelstein and Gila Gamliel represented the Israeli board at this meeting.  Kay Arthur, Chairwoman of the international board, spoke of the importance of Jews and Christians working together for the advancement of the status of women.

The KCAC Women's Council is currently working on the its first conference set to take place from May 20 - 21, 2006.  The Summit will be built around hardships facing women worldwide to which we believe solutions can be found through Judeo-Christian values.  Women representatives from every country in the world will join together in this monumental forum to be trained as ambassadors who will mobilize their respective governments to promote the status of women in their home country.  Through this conference in Jerusalem, a city deeply holy for both Jews and Christians, women leaders will promote Judeo-Christian values globally.

 

International Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem

The International Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem will take place this year on October 1, 2006 at 9:00AM at Migdal David, inside Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate and is hosted by Reverend Robert Stearns' Eagles' Wings and Dr. Jack Hayford's King's College and Seminary.  Since the KCAC's inception in 2004, our caucus has pledged its support to this annual international initiative.  Through this event, tens of thousands of Christians throughout the world pray and demonstrate their desire for the strength and well-being of Israel annually each October.

 

Eagles' Wings Israel Experience College Scholarship Program

The Knesset Christian Allies Caucus is dedicated to sponsoring and hosting the participants of the Eagles' Wings Israel Experience College Scholarship Program annually in the Knesset since 2004. This scholarship program, created by Robert Stearns, sends outstanding Christian college students to Israel for an intensive three and a half week course designed to train them as pro-Israel activists on their college campuses.  Students from this program are provided with the opportunity to spend a full day in Israel's parliament with the Members of Knesset from the KCAC and to experience first hand the inner workings of the Knesset.

 

Honoring Our Christian Allies

Each year, the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus, in cooperation with the World Jewish Congress, honors our Christian allies in Israel and their continual contributions to the Jewish State.  In September 2005, the KCAC honored those organizations that participated in a joint project that took place in 2004 in which the KCAC joined together with a number of Christian organizations to donate and distribute 16,000 school bags with supplies to needy Israeli first-graders.  The Christian groups that contributed to the joint project included Bridges for Peace, Christian Friends of Israel, the East Gate Foundation, Christian Friends of Israeli Communities and the Christian Embassy International Jerusalem.

 

Reaching Out to Christian Government Leaders

Each year, the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus, in cooperation with Tom Hess' All Nations Convocation, hosts the Christian Government Leaders Luncheon in the Knesset.  Sixty Christian politicians from Europe, South America, Asia and Africa join Israeli leaders annually for this event to break bread together, renew their spiritual ties and strengthen the common values and heritage that bind them together.  Leaders from both communities continually work to strengthen the alliance with which Christians and Jews will together face the ominous challenges the 21st Century has set before them.

 

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