Daoud Kuttab

Daoud Kuttab is an author at Religion News Service.

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Arab evangelical Christians invite Zionist evangelicals to restore ‘one body in Christ’

By Daoud Kuttab — August 8, 2024
(RNS) — The plea finds a ‘discernible missional gap’ between the Western church and the churches of the Middle East.

Iranian American wrestling champion leads effort to develop singlet for conservative Muslim women

By Daoud Kuttab — July 11, 2024
(RNS) — Afsoon Roshanzamir Johnston, the first American woman to medal at the world championships in freestyle wrestling, formed a committee to design a wrestling outfit for international competition that respects religious and cultural traditions.

Its move from Bethlehem to Jordan complete, Love Into Action resumes mission to aid disabled

By Daoud Kuttab — June 24, 2024
(RNS) — Laurence and Sharon Garnett chose their new home to help underserved Bedouins and Syrian refugees.

Southern Baptist resolutions on war, Oct. 7 fail logical and biblical tests

By Daoud Kuttab — June 12, 2024
(RNS) — A resolution supporting Israel in the wake of Oct. 7 failed to consider fellow Christians in the Middle East.

At ‘Christ at the Checkpoint,’ Palestinian Christians rail against Western church’s response to war

By Daoud Kuttab — May 30, 2024
(RNS) — Attendees at a conference called for global church leaders to be held accountable for one-sided support for Israel.

Latin Patriarch Pizzaballa’s visit provides Palestinians a basic human need: Hope

By Daoud Kuttab — May 20, 2024
(RNS) — The visit is a reminder that the Gaza war is not a religious one and certainly not a Jewish-Muslim conflict.

Biden’s pier for food aid into Gaza is no substitute for a Ramadan cease-fire

By Daoud Kuttab — March 8, 2024
(RNS) — The prospects for peace diminish with every passing day of Ramadan that goes without a cease-fire.

Mitri Raheb, a Palestinian pastor, travels to US to forefront plight of Christians in Gaza

By Daoud Kuttab — February 2, 2024
(RNS) — 'I wanted to remind our American friends that there are Palestinian Christians,' he said.

As court decides on genocide charge, Netanyahu’s use of a Bible passage haunts him

By Daoud Kuttab — January 25, 2024
(RNS) — Theologians have criticized a biblical justification for total war offered by the Israeli prime minister.

Mike Pence writes messages on bombs meant for Lebanon. Would Jesus do that?

By Daoud Kuttab — January 8, 2024
(RNS) — A debunked theology is providing cover for supremacists — both white Christian and Jewish — to pursue an illegal war.

Christmas celebrations canceled, Christians in the Holy Land still find hope in the season

By Daoud Kuttab — December 18, 2023
AMMAN, Jordan (RNS) — 'Do not let death rejoice in its victory over us,' said one writer.

How the Israel-Hamas war has brought together Arab Christians and Muslims

By Daoud Kuttab — November 3, 2023
(RNS) — Bonds strained in recent years by the rise of Islamic radicals have been cemented again.

Two young Palestinian women died in a Gaza church, treated like ‘human animals’

By Daoud Kuttab — October 21, 2023
(RNS) — The shelling of St. Porphyrios follows efforts to dehumanize Palestinians to justify inhumane attacks.

How we got to the ‘Al-Aqsa tsunami’

By Daoud Kuttab — October 7, 2023
(RNS) — Ramping up religious fanaticism for political ends always ends badly.

Why Jerusalem’s Latin patriarch opened church courts to non-Catholic lawyers

By Daoud Kuttab — September 11, 2023
(RNS) — A courageous decision gives more people access to the law.
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