The Patriarchate's ecclesiastical jurisdiction includes roughly 200,000 to 500,000 Orthodox Christians across the Holy Land in Palestine, Jordan and Israel. The church serves as custodian of several holy places in Christianity, including the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
We support the Greek Patriarch with an annual grant which has predominantly been used to support the Four Homes of Mercy in Bethany. The Four Homes of Mercy has provided and continues to provide shelter to thousands of elder people and children abandoned by their families, people suffering from incurable mental and other diseases.
In addition to 27 parishes, the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem (EDJ) owns and operates more than two dozen humanitarian institutions—schools, hospitals, clinics, ce...
The largest Christian population in the Middle East are Copts, with 10-15 million (15% of the population) members in Egypt. We say that the small remaining Christia...
Founded in 1901 through partnership with local church members and German missionaries, the Evangelical Lutheran School (ELS) in Beit Sahour is the second longest-ru...
