The largest evangelical Christian group publicly supporting Israel is preparing to assume a mission that lies at the heart of the Zionist philosophy – the promotion, funding and implementing of mass aliyah, or immigration, of significant numbers of Jews to Israel from their native countries.
On October 6, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews will begin its own separate aliyah operation, directed by Israel’s former top official in charge of the issue, and funded by millions of dollars donated by American evangelical Christians.
Despite its apparently positive intentions, the group’s plan has generated intense controversy on different levels. The Jewish Agency for Israel, the official agency for promoting and implementing aliyah, feels that is turf is being invaded, while others have expressed reservations about the ideological and even theological implications of the Christian group’s new mission. Read more: http://jpupdates.com/2014/10/20/evangelical-christian-groups-new-aliyah-effort-raises-jewish-concerns/
