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Plan to expand national park onto church-owned lands still appears on website of planning panel; parks authority: Project won't be advanced without dialogue with church leaders
Israeli authorities, following criticism from heads of major Churches in the Holy Land, back down from including Jerusalem's Christian sites into a national park project
Visiting US lawmakers raise concern with PM about move slated to clear preliminary hurdle next month; church leaders blast plan to 'nationalize one of Christianity's holiest sites'
A proposed expansion of a national park into east Yerushalayim has aroused fierce opposition from churches that claim it would strip their ownership of
Tel Aviv, Feb 20 (Prensa Latina) Israel is studying expanding a national park on land owned by the church and Christian holy sites in East Jerusalem, a project that faces opposition from Christian leaders in the city.