Still problems for Christians.Bethany, West Bank--Catholic Insight reported on problems experienced by Palestinian Christians in the village of Maghar earlier this year (April 2005). This was an extreme incident, but problems continue to be everyday affairs for ordinary Christians. The National Catholic Register reported (March 20) on one Palestinian family's difficulties with their attendance at Easter service in Jerusalem. The Musleh family lives on the wrong side of the yet incomplete Israeli security perimeter around Jerusalem. Four years ago a five-minute drive would have brought them to the Mount of Olives Mount of Olives: see Olives, Mount of. and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre This article is about the church building in Jerusalem. For other uses, see The Holy Sepulchre (disambiguation). The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Latin Sanctum Sepulchrum), also called the Church of the Resurrection ( (Arabic, . Today they must go on a 40-minute detour, and pass through several Israeli military checkpoints. Like most of the 70 Catholic families in the area, the Muslehs now prefer to stay back and worship in their small local church. Meantime, a Toronto Star The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within Ontario. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., a division of Star Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. article (February 2, 2005) reported that the Israeli government has attempted to confiscate To expropriate private property for public use without compensating the owner under the authority of the Police Power of the government. To seize property. When property is confiscated it is transferred from private to public use, usually for reasons such as thousands of hectares of Palestinian land in East Jerusalem East Jerusalem refers to the part of Jerusalem captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. It includes Jerusalem's Old City and some of the holiest sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, such as the Temple Mount, Western . A long-dormant Israeli law permitted the seizure of property of Palestinians who fled their homes during the troubles of 1948-1949. It has been suggested that this law should now also apply to those forced out during the 1967 Middle East war. |
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