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Monday, September 19, 2011

Holy Land clerics bless Palestinian UN bid

Some things will never change. There is even a Catholic-Lutheran version of the Ten Commandments that gives cover to graven images.

How can the Vatican, et al, even consider endorsing Hamas and the PLO, when their openly expressed reason for being is the extermination of Israel and the Jews first and the Christian World is to follow. They aren't kidding!


Holy Land clerics bless Palestinian UN bid
Sep 18, 2011
Priests in the Holy Land used their sermons on Sunday to give their blessing to the Palestinians' bid for United Nations membership.

The retired Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, the first Palestinian to hold the post since the Crusades, was to preach in the Roman Catholic Church in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

A joint statement by Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran priests pledged their "support for the diplomatic efforts being deployed to win international recognition for the State of Palestine... on the June 1967 borders with Jerusalem as our capital."

The priests went further than their bishops, who in a statement this week confined themselves to a call for intensified prayer and diplomatic efforts ahead of the Palestinian membership request, to be sent to the UN Security Council on Friday.

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Jewish groups worried by Vatican gesture

More than 40 years of progress in Catholic-Jewish relations may be called into question by attempt to reach out to group of breakaway traditionalist Catholics, including Holocaust-denying bishop.

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  1. Joash de CabinSeptember 20, 2011 at 3:45 AM

    In that junction declaration by Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran clerics promised their "support for the diplomatic efforts being established to win worldwide acknowledgement for the State of Palestine.

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