The statement comes after a recent report by the Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem found “threats to Christian heritage."
The Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in a Saturday statement claiming to be from the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in the Holy Land, condemned Christian Zionism as a “damaging” ideology.
The statement, which does not appear on the official website of the Jerusalem Patriarchate nor on its social media, condemned “local individuals who advance damaging ideologies, such as Christian Zionism.”
Claiming such actors are working to “mislead the public, sow confusion, and harm the unity of our flock,” the statement alleged that the individuals had found support from political figures in Israel with their own agendas. These political agendas were alleged to have potential harm on the status of “Christian presence in the Holy Land and the wider Middle East.”
“To claim authority outside the communion of the Church is to wound the unity of the faithful and burden the pastoral mission entrusted to the historic churches in the very land where our Lord lived, taught, suffered, and rose from the dead,” the statement warned. “The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem reiterate that they alone represent the Churches and their flock in matters pertaining to Christian religious, communal, and pastoral life in the Holy Land.”
The patriarchate was also critical of the way the local individuals had been embraced both nationally and internationally.
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