Church of Holy Sepulchre disavows keymaster’s Pence ‘boycott’

Times of Israel ^ | 13 December 2017, 6:39 pm | Dov Lieber

[Olog-hai]

Officials at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Wednesday dismissed the significance of a letter written by the site’s Muslim keyholder in which he vowed not to receive US Vice President Mike Pence as irrelevant, since the man is not an official of the church and does not represent it.

A spokeswoman for Pence, who is due next week, said the vice president has not reached out to plan a visit to the church at this stage, and a church official said no visit had yet been planned.

Adeeb Jowdeh al-Husseini, the Custodian of the Keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, wrote in an Arabic statement this week that he “refuses completely to receive United States Vice President Pence in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.”

Stressing his opposition to US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Husseini further said he would not be present when the US vice president visits the church, and called on church leaders of the different denominations not to receive Pence. …

[SunkenCiv]

Officials at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Wednesday dismissed the significance of a letter written by the site’s Muslim keyholder in which he vowed not to receive US Vice President Mike Pence as irrelevant, since the man is not an official of the church and does not represent it.

Thanks Olog-hai.

[Berosus]

If Mike Pence goes to the Garden Tomb instead, will those Church of the Holy Sepulchre clergymen be offended?

[PSUGOP]

Somebody needs to tell these sand nazis the Vice President of the United States will go wherever he wants to go.

[Jumper]

Beautiful Church. Was given a 21-man security escort for 6 visitors on 22 Dec 2005 to visit Bethlehem, departing from the AmCons J-Rue.

The three God worshiping religious leaders told us and showed us where the Pali's pissed on the entire structure when they occupied under Arafat....

[left that other site]

Beat Me To It!

While nobody claims that The Garden Tomb is the ACTUAL place, it is a wonderful, peaceful, lovely garden with an empty 1st Century Tomb on site that illustrates what it might have been like. Since it’s very near a rocky outcrop that LOOKS like a skull, it is even more evocative of Calvary.

Both tombs are EMPTY, so either one will do. (Been to both!)

[SunkenCiv]

:^) He should go to both, and every other Biblically significant place, including the various sites that have been vandalized and desecrated by the koranimals since the PLO took control.