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Weekly Update: The nations continue their Israel-bashing ritual

The UN Human Rights Council, based in Geneva, has an inbuilt, institutional bias against Israel. No other country attracts as many condemnatory resolutions as Israel. No other country is a permanent item on the UNHRC’s agenda (the infamous agenda item 7). In 2021, the Council …

Refugee or Repatriant?

In the last few weeks we have kept you updated regularly about the work of Christians for Israel in Ukraine. …

Interview with Rev. Kenneth Kross

In this video C4I Director Rev. Cornelis Kant speaks with Kenneth Kross, who is a pastor in Suriname and Curaçao. …

SOS Ukraine: Rescue Flight from Ukraine

On the 3rd of April 90 Jewish refugees from Ukraine landed in Israel. They fled from cities such as Kharkiv, …

Svetlana had to flee twice

Svetlana (66 years old) seems a bit quiet now that she is on her way to Israel, away from the …

The Power of the Mind

Like many young people, when he was seventeen Perth-born Jason Blankfield was not sure what he wanted to do with …

Weekly Update: Terrorist attacks in Israel in midst of great political change

There has been a surge of terrorist attacks in Israel in recent days. 11 innocent people have been killed in …

Prayer is the fuel for our work in Ukraine

I am visiting Christians for Israel’s shelter in western Ukraine. It turns out to be a moment of reunion with …

Only now we feel better inside… – First Home Update

A week ago, we welcomed Olga Gordienko with her 12-year-old son Ruslan from Dneprodzerzhinsk who fled the war via the …

Also an Israelite | Romans 9-11 with Johannes Gerloff #39

God has not rejected His chosen people of Israel, the Jewish people, whom He Himself “foreknew”. The apostle now presents …

Katya and her little daughter fled Mariupol: ‘I’m still in shock’

Yesterday, two names on the list of refugees we were to accompany to Kishenov, the capital of Moldova, attracted attention. …

C4I Prayer Calendar April/May available!

In recent years, the driving force behind the return of the Jews (from the tribe of Manasseh) from India to …

Oppressed, but not abandoned

Zaporozhe has been in the news lately as a city that had its nuclear power plant partly come under Russian …

The Village that Never Was

Fiddler on the Roof is one of the most-loved and long-lasting musicals ever to hit the Broadway stage. It is …

The Dutch Chief Rabbi Jacobs in Ukraine (4)

We go home today. It takes almost three hours to travel from the location where we spent the night to …

From Ukraine to Israel

Jewish refugees have to say goodbye to loved ones and leave everything behind. In this short clip we follow them …

The Dutch Chief Rabbi Jacobs in Ukraine (3)

After 270 kilometers and a three-and-a-half-hour drive through Moldova, we arrive in Kishenev, the capital of Moldova. From there, The …

Zelenskyy and the UN whitewash antisemitism

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent speech to the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) certainly hit some sensitive spots in the Jewish world. This …

The Dutch Chief Rabbi Jacobs in Ukraine (2)

It is 05.00 AM and I slept quite well. First a shower, then davening (morning prayer) and at 07.20 AM …

God Knows | Romans 9-11 with Johannes Gerloff #38

To us as theologians, as bible-readers, as believers and human beings all this seems contradictive, illogical, even crazy. But, the …