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The presence of the Christian community is indispensable to the identity of Jerusalem, considered holy by all three Abrahamic faiths, several European bishops said at the end of a visit to the Holy Land. "Jerusalem is a Jewish city, a Christian city, a Muslim city. It must remain a common patrimony and never become the exclusive monopoly of any one religion," they said in a statement May 26. "The Christian community is essential to Jerusalem's identity, both now and for the f...

The presence of the Christian community is indispensable to the identity of Jerusalem, considered holy by all three Abrahamic faiths, several European bishops said at the end of a visit to the Holy Land. "Jerusalem is a Jewish city, a Christian city, a Muslim city. It must remain a common patrimony and never become the exclusive monopoly of any one religion," they said in a statement May 26. "The Christian community is essential to Jerusalem's identity, both now and for the f...

Members of the Holy Land Coordination meet with young people of Jerusalem at St James the Apostle Beit Hanina parish, May 21, 2022. / Mazur/cbcew.org.uk via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)Denver Newsroom, May 26, 2022 / 18:00 pm (CNA).At the end of a trip to the Holy Land, a group of European bishops lamented the threats to Jerusalems Christians, noting in particular the attack on mourners at the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh."The Christian community is essential to Jerusalems identity, both now an...

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RAMALLAH, May 13 — Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh will be buried alongside her parents in a cemetery near Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday, two days after she was shot dead in an Israeli army raid. The Palestinian American’s body has been transferred from the occupied West...

White House Press Secretary called images of Israeli police clubbing mourners and pallbearers carrying the casket of a Palestinian-American journalist disturbing.

JERUSALEM, May 9 — Two Palestinians were shot dead and another was wounded in separate incidents in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem yesterday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence. The unrest came hours after the arrest of two Palestinians suspected of axing...

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Israeli PM Naftali Bennett and Vladimir Putin spoke over the telephone and a subsequent Israeli statement said the Russian President had apologised

Some say they are struggling to pay rent as cost of living, ingredients rise and many opt to shop in the West Bank where prices are lower; others say lack of tourism hurts their businesses