Israel/Palestine

David__77

(24,690 posts) Sun Mar 29, 2026, 06:58 PM 2 hrs ago

Israeli police bar priest from Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday

Christians in Jerusalem and Gaza marked Holy Week under wartime restrictions, with Israeli police blocking the Latin Patriarch from the Holy Sepulchre for the first time in centuries.In Gaza, a small Christian community continued Palm Sunday rites despite ongoing attacks and severe shortages of essentials.

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Israeli police bar priest from Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday (Original Post) David__77 2 hrs ago OP

will point out that the Cardinal (and other officials) were informed well in advance stopdiggin 1 hr ago #1

stopdiggin

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1. will point out that the Cardinal (and other officials) were informed well in advance

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Sun Mar 29, 2026, 08:23 PM

1 hr ago

that the site would not be open - (and an 'appeal' to that decision made, and turned away)
Making anyone persisting in 'showing up' at the site - a gesture purely one of performance.

That said ... Far as I'm concerned you can take all of your poxy self important religious 'elite' (of whatever flavor or stripe) - and roll them down a (very steep) hill in a barrel. More or less what they all have coming.

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