Our Lead Bishop for the Holy Land, Bishop Jim Curry, has appeared as a guest on the December 2025 episode of Middle East Analysis, a podcast series that examines the complex religious, political and socio-economic realities of the region covering the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf States.
Sitting alongside regular studio guest Dr Harry Hagopian, an international lawyer, analyst and consultant on the region, Bishop Curry discusses Pope Leo XIV’s first overseas visit to Türkiye and Lebanon as well as the need to look east from our comfortable position in the UK to the lands of Christ’s birth and the coming of the Word made flesh.
There’s no ducking the realities facing the people of the Holy Land this Christmas but Bishop Curry and Dr Hagopian look to find reasons to cling to hope in tumultuous times.
This is very much a podcast of two parts. The first dedicated to more political themes, the second an appropriately spiritual take on the coming of Christ at Christmas.
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