Faith

Millions of Christians live and worship in the Gulf states, most of them migrant workers. Their churches sit on top of a far older Christian history in eastern Arabia.

Expelled from his Galilee village as a boy in 1948, Elias Chacour became a priest, an educator and an archbishop, and one of the best-known Palestinian Christian advocates of reconciliation.

Perched in the hills north-east of Ramallah, Taybeh traces its history to the time of Christ. Today it is known for its churches, its brewery, and the pressures facing its small Christian community.

A covenant attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, preserved for centuries at St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, promises protection to Christians. What does it say, and how authentic is it?

The Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia is one of the most outspoken Palestinian Christian clerics, known for his defence of Jerusalem's Christians and his calls for Muslim-Christian unity.

"I will bless those who bless you." Few verses are quoted more often in debates about Christians and Israel. Palestinian theologians read it very differently.

Long before American televangelists, the idea that Christians should help restore the Jews to Palestine took root in nineteenth-century Britain, among evangelical preachers, aristocrats and imperial strategists.

Tens of millions of Christians believe that supporting the State of Israel is a biblical duty. Critics within the church argue that this belief rests on a misreading of scripture, and has real consequences for the Middle East.