Multi-Million Dollar Building for Visiting Christians Planned Next to Embassy in Jerusalem

Eliana Rudee : May 1, 2018
Breakingisraelnews.com

The headquarters will primarily be used as an educational facility in which Christians will learn about Jesus' life in Jerusalem and the Jewish roots of the Christian faith.

(Israel)— [Breakingisraelnews.com] The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews ("The Fellowship") is breaking ground on its new Jerusalem headquarters, a multi-million dollar building that will provide a home in the Holy Land for visiting Christians. (Image: Artistic renderings of the new IFCJ headquarters—Global Fellowship House—in Jerusalem/Courtesy of IFCJ/via BIN)

In the context of what has become known as "the golden age for Jewish-Christian relations," the new center will be located next to the planned U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, a move which many evangelical Christians in the United States strongly supported.

The building project, which will likely take three years, is also located exactly in between the Western Wall and Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, according to early Christian traditions.

The headquarters will primarily be used as an educational facility in which Christians will learn about Jesus' life in Jerusalem and the Jewish roots of the Christian faith, including baptism, which some say is based in the Jewish tradition of mikveh, a ritual bath...

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