Next month, June, there will be a court hearing in Jerusalem to decide an issue of great importance to Jerusalem’s Christians, who now number perhaps just 9,000 in total. Formerly they constituted nearly a third of the population; now they represent just one per cent. Yet that one per cent represents a disproportionately large share of the social capital of the city: maybe 30 per cent of the schools, hospitals, care for the elderly, centres for the young. It is also a community that represents a living strand of the Church community associated with the apostle James, 2,000 years ago. The Christians are a force for good in Jerusalem. They are a living expression of its triune character, its religious diversity.