(JNS) Hundreds of evangelical churches around the world on Sunday affirmed their support for the Jewish people and the State of Israel ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The third annual ‘Solidarity Sunday’ event, which was launched after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, was marked by some 600 churches and tens of thousands of congregants in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico and countries in Africa and Europe seeking to send a global message against antisemitism on the Sunday before International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27.

“Two thousand years of Christian history have often been horrible to the Jewish people,” said Bishop Robert Stearns, founder and president of the New York-based Eagles’ Wings ministry, which launched the initiative through its pastor network. “If I had a hundred lifetimes, it would not be sufficient repentance.”

The American evangelical continued: “But I am here to say this: there is a new breed of Christian alive in the world today—one that says for Zion’s sake, I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake, I will not be still. In this moment, Jews and Christians must unite and stand together.”

Among those attending the event, which coincided with a burst of antisemitism around the globe that has continued unabated even after the October ceasefire in Gaza, were survivors of the Oct. 7 attack and American Jewish students who have experienced antisemitism firsthand on US college campuses.

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