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• Palestinian Christians spend a month with host families

20-Sep-04 Cincinnati Enquirer, Karen Vance,

Six Palestinian Christian students and their teacher were greeted this week in Mount Healthy with prayers for peace in their homeland.
The five eighth-grade students and one fifth-grader are spending a little more than a month with students from Church of the Assumption parish school. They're visiting the United States through the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation and will attend a conference in Washington, D.C., when they leave Cincinnati.

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• A Bloody Holy Land: "Let's Stop the Christian Exodus"

20-Sep-04 Fondation Guile, Giorgio Paolucci,

"Here there will not be peace while all the parties in the conflict attribute to themselves all the reasons and reflect all mistakes on the other side. Peace starts when we become sincere, I mean when we acknowledge that there is something bigger than our point of view, and when we get involved by recognizing everyone's responsibilities. This is a city chosen by God to bring Peace to all mankind, but people are betraying this gift. Pray for Jerusalem, for here is the key for living together for the whole world."

(Read more here)

• Holy Land and Iraq Need Dialogue, Not Strife, Says Pope

19-Sep-04 Zenit,

John Paul II says that the solution to the conflicts occurring in Iraq, the Holy Land and countries scourged by terrorism is dialogue, not violence.

The Pope repeated the Vatican's position in the complex international scene, when he received the letters of credence of Egypt's new ambassador to the Holy See, career diplomat Nevine Simaika Halim.

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• Israel Says Pact on Cenacle Depends on Christians

16-Sep-04 Zenit,

Control of the Cenacle of Jerusalem, scene of Jesus' last supper, will be turned over if Israel and the Christian groups of the Holy Land can reach an agreement, an Israeli official said.

Interior Minister Abraham Poraz told Vatican Radio that the place in which Pentecost also took place was one of the issues discussed in his meetings with Vatican representatives.

(Read more here)

• Jerusalem Could Be a Source of Peace, Says Cardinal, at a Meeting in the Holy City

15-Sep-04 Zenit,

Jerusalem could change from being a problem to being a motive for peace in the Holy Land, says Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran.

The cardinal suggested this at the closing of the meeting entitled "Jerusalem, Where Does Your Name Dwell?" organized by the Italian Monastery of Camaldoli at the initiative of Il Regno magazine.

The cardinal, who for 13 years was Vatican secretary for relations with states, highlighted Jerusalem as the "fulcrum" of a possible solution of the Palestinian-Israeli controversy and as a city of peace and element of union and pacification between both peoples.

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• Israel and Vatican Working Out Visa Issue Regarding Priests and Religious

15-Sep-04 Zenit,

Israel's interior minister gave the Holy See assurances of having given instructions for a solution to the problem of priests and religious seeking entrance
visas to his country.

Interior Minister Avraham Poraz met with John Paul II today after addressing with papal aides some of the issues being negotiated by the Holy See and the Israeli government.

During the meetings, questions touched on the issuing of visas to priests and religious, and talks between the Holy See and Israel on fiscal questions of ecclesiastical institutions in that country, according to the Vatican
press office.

(Read more here)

• Call for 40 days of prayer for Bethlehem

14-Sep-04 Ekklesia,

Christian Peacemaker Teams in Hebron is calling on supporters across the world to join with them in forty days of prayer for the people of Bethlehem through to October 10, 2004.

(Read more here)

• Appeal From Bethlehem

24-Nov-03

As the Israeli government insists on the execution of its expansionist project at Rachel's Tomb area in Bethlehem, I find myself compelled to convey to you my grave concern over this serious threat that overshadows the town of the Nativity and its future

(Read more here)

• Colin Powell Will Visit Pope to Discuss Mideast

30-May-03 Zenit,

ROME, MAY 29, 2003 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II will receive U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in audience to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and the Mideast situation in the wake of the Iraqi war.

(Read more here)

• A Campaign to Divide the Church in the Holy Land.

19-May-03 America The National Catholic Weekly, Drew Christiansen, S.J.,

In Rome and Jerusalem, proposals have been made to divide the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and to establish alongside it a church Jurisdiction for Hebrew-speaking Catholics in Israel. This new jurisdiction would be directly dependent on Rome and independent of the local Latin (Roman Catholic) patriarch.

(Read more here)

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