More than a thousand pastors and Christian influencers have descended on Jerusalem this week in what organizers are calling the largest delegation of its kind since the founding of the modern State of Israel. This is not a tourist trip — it is a deliberate show of solidarity from faith leaders who understand that standing with Israel is both a moral duty and a geopolitical necessity.
The delegation was organized in partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Friends of Zion Museum, a powerful and unprecedented cooperation that shows Israel knows who its true friends are. Leaders like Mike Evans say these pastors are being commissioned as ambassadors to fight antisemitism and to reach the next generation with truth where the leftist institutions have failed.
During the week the pastors prayed on the ancient Southern Steps and at the Western Wall, and they toured southern communities that suffered during the October 7 massacre, meeting survivors and former hostages. Those first-hand encounters with the victims of Islamist terror are exactly the kind of sobering reality checks America’s pulpits need to preach about — not the sanitized narratives peddled by coastal elites.
Speakers at the gala included Israeli officials and prominent American conservative figures who urged the visitors to “light the pulpits of America” with the truth about Israel and the war against Hamas. The message was blunt: faith communities must counter the misinformation campaigns and cultural revisionism that excuse terror and erase Jewish suffering.
Organizers warned that this is an ideological war as much as a military one, and they accused hostile actors of funding narratives that twist facts and silence supporters of Israel. Conservatives should cheer this frank talk — we have watched for years as the institutions that once shaped public morality crumble, and now faithful pastors are stepping into the breach to defend truth and decency.
If Washington’s leaders and the media refuse to convey the stakes, then America’s churches must. This delegation is a call to action for every patriotic American who believes in the covenantal bond between our nations and the right of Israel to defend its citizens; it’s time for pastors and parishioners to push back aggressively against antisemitism and cultural surrender.
