This is an interesting article:
In a statement published just one week after a United Nations ceasefire went into effect on August 14, Nazareth-born Roman Catholic Patriarch Michel Sabbah was joined by two Arab Protestant bishops and one Arab Orthodox archbishop, in charging that "the Christian Zionist program provides a worldview where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism."
"We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as false teaching that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation," the statement said.
Signed by Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Swerios Malki Mourad, along with Sabah and the Episcopal and Evangelical Lutheran bishops of Jerusalem, the joint statement indirectly denounced President Bush for declaring his support last May for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan to hold onto some Jewish settlements in the disputed West Bank after unilaterally withdrawing from many others.
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The American-born Parsons, who also edits the Jerusalem Post International Christian Edition and has written extensively about Christian Zionism, noted that the bishop's August 22nd statement borrowed heavily from a similar one issued at the end of a 2004 anti-Zionist church conference held in Jerusalem, attended and addressed by the same four clerics, among others.
Parsons said one of the four Arab church leaders, Nazareth-born Anglican Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal, is widely known for his outspoken Palestinian nationalism.
He added that the local Episcopal leader "has publicly stated several times that Palestinian martyrs, including Muslim suicide terrorists, receive eternal life."
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