A prominent group of American Christian media broadcasters will, for the first time, hold a major event in Jerusalem next year, seeking to unite Christians and Jews in combating media misinformation following the two-year war against Hamas in Gaza.
The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), which encompasses 1,500 media organizations across America and reaches tens of millions of people on five continents, plans to meet in Israel’s capital in the fall of 2026 as a follow-up to its annual U.S. convention in Nashville, Tenn., in February.
“We need to be united as Christians and Jews and other like-minded people, based on our shared Judeo-Christian values, in taking on all of the false-messaging, propaganda, misinformation and fake news that is being spread around the globe,” Troy Miller, president and CEO of the NRB, told JNS on Monday.
The Nashville-based conservative evangelical broadcaster said that he expected hundreds of Christian news media and influencers to attend the three-day event in Jerusalem.
Miller said that Israel lost the “media war” over the last two years because of a deep-rooted woke ideology that has created an ingrained bias in reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That bias preceded the war against Hamas but was exacerbated by it, he added.
“We live in the greatest time of communication in the ability to reach people, but this has created challenges that we must work together to overcome, and advance human flourishing around the world,” he said. “Despite the noise of elitists, overwhelmingly the Christian community in the U.S. is holding firm in support of Israel.”
Miller is in Jerusalem to attend the Israeli Government Press Office’s 7th annual Christian Media Summit, being held on Nov. 2-6.
Last year, the NRB made headlines by urging its members to stop using the term “West Bank” when reporting about the biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria.
