Christian Zionism is a political and religious ideology that, in a Christian context, espouses the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land. Likewise, it holds that the founding of Israel in 1948
Thomas Brightman, an English Puritan, published Shall They Return to Jerusalem Again? in 1615. This was one of the earliest Restorationist works.
The Puritans, once a "fringe" faction, came to power under Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth. Several of his closest advisors held Philo-Semitic millennialist religious views.
The Earl of Shaftesbury, influenced by Evangelical Anglicanism and the views of Edward Bickersteth was one of the first British politicians to seriously endorse a Jewish return to Ottoman Palestine as official policy.
"Memorandum to the Protestant Powers of the North of Europe and America", Colonial Times, Hobart, Australia, 1841
Christianity is the third largest religion in Israel, after Judaism and Islam. At the end of 2022, Christians made up 1.9% of the Israeli population, numbering approximately 185,000. 75.8% of the Chri
Christian Zionism
…towards the motives of Evangelical Protestants, who have been promoting support for the State of Israel and evangelizing the Jews at the same time. The Christian churches of Jerusalem reject Christian Zionism as a "damaging ideology". The first wave of Protestant leaders, including Martin Luther and John Calvin, did not mention any…
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem
St. Elijah Cathedral of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, in Haifa.
The Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church, in Jerusalem.
St. George's Cathedral of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, in Jerusalem.