Israel to spend up to $4.1M to bolster support among Christians in western US, filings show

 

San Diego firm contracted to geofence churches, recruit pastors and tour an “October 7th Experience” exhibit as part of Israel’s expanded global outreach efforts.

By Asaf Elia-Shalev October 3, 2025 2:43 pm

With its popularity in the United States crashing, Israel is bankrolling what organizers say will be the largest campaign of its kind to bolster support among evangelical churches, until recently seen as an unshakable base of support for the Jewish state.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry has hired an American firm to run the campaign, with plans to spend as much as $4.1 million on marketing aimed at Christians across the Western part of the country, according to newly filed federal disclosures.

The documents, filed last week under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, reveal that Show Faith by Works, LLC will execute what it bills as the “largest Christian Church Geofencing Campaign in U.S. history.” 

A newly formed company with a San Diego address, Show Faith by Works is run by Chad Schnitger, a prominent Christian conservative activist in California. 

The initiative is designed to reach churchgoers with digital ads that are explicitly “pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian,” while dispatching a mobile “October 7th Experience” exhibit to church parking lots and Christian colleges.

The campaign adds a new prong to Israel’s U.S. communications blitz, complementing a $1.5 million-per-month contract for AI-driven social media activity with former Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale and a contract with a firm called Bridge Partners to create an influencer network called the Esther Project.

The PR blitz was anticipated after Israel’s Foreign Ministry was allocated $150 million in this year’s budget for public relations efforts.

https://www.jta.org/2025/10/03/israel/israel-to-spend-up-to-4-1m-on-christian-pr-campaign-in-western-u-s-filings-show

Israel supporters, including Christian evangelicals, participate in the United for Israel march outside of Columbia University in New York City on April 25, 2024. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

The Holy Prepuce, or Holy Foreskin (Latin præputium or prepucium), is one of several relics attributed to Jesus, consisting of the foreskin removed during the circumcision of Jesus.

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All Jewish boys are required by Jewish religious law to be circumcised on the eighth day following their birth; the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ, still celebrated by many churches around the world, accordingly falls on January 1. Luke 2:21 (King James Version), reads: "And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb."[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce

The "holy foreskin"... Good grief...

Pope Francis: 'Inside every Christian is a Jew'

 

(...) Francis' statement seems to go further than his predecessor, St. John Paul II, who made headlines in 1986 as the first pope to visit Rome's main synagogue and declared Jews to be the "elder brothers" of the Christian faith.

"Every day, I pray with the Psalms of David. My prayer is Jewish, then I have the Eucharist, which is Christian," the Argentine pontiff added.

https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/pope-francis-inside-every-christian-jew

By 1987, at least 12 of the 57,000 priests in the United States had died of AIDS.^[120][121] By 2001, over 300 priests had died of AIDS.^[124][123] In 2000, the Kansas City Star released a three-part report that claimed priests were dying of AIDS at a rate four times greater than the general population.^[124][125] 

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Many priests acquired the disease by having sex with other men.^[124][123]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_HIV/AIDS#Priests_with_AIDS

Catholic school is forced to cover up a brand new statue after 'unfortunate' design showing a kneeling boy and a saint

 

By STEPHEN JOHNSON, ECONOMICS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 22:52 BST, 21 November 2017 | Updated: 08:25 BST, 22 November 2017

A Catholic boys school has been forced to cover up a brand new statue after a rather unfortunate design created a storm on social media.

Blackfriars Priory School in Adelaide last week unveiled a statue of St Dominic handing a young boy a loaf of bread.

However the design featuring a boy kneeling at the foot of the 12th century Spanish-born saint has caused embarrassment to the inner-city school, which teaches boys from kindergarten to year 12.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5105765/Adelaide-Catholic-School-covers-brand-new-statue.html

Here's another one: