13 US citizens denied entry to Israel for weeklong trip to learn about Palestinian Christians

13 US citizens denied entry to Israel for weeklong trip to learn about Palestinian Christians

(RNS) — A group of 13 United States citizens who traveled to Israel to take part in a weeklong trip with a Christian organization dedicated to Palestinian liberation theology were denied entry at the border last week. The interfaith group, led by retired Emory University theology professor L. Edward Phillips and his wife, the Rev. Sara Webb Phillips, an ordained United Methodist minister, were set to tour Jerusalem and West Bank sites with the S…