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Posted on 04/16/2006 6:45:00 AM PDT by NYer
Jerusalem, Apr. 13, 2006 (CNA) - The 13 patriarchs and heads of Christian Churches in Jerusalem launched in their joint Easter message a powerful appeal for reconciliation between Israel and Palestine and called on the international community not to boycott the Palestinian people by stopping aid, reported AsiaNews.
The Christian churches in the Holy Land—Orthodox, Armenian, Latin Catholic, Copt, Syriac, Anglican and Lutheran—will celebrate Easter on April 16 or 23. Their leaders call on their faithful to see the proximity in dates as a sign of the need for greater solidarity and shared witness of the resurrection of Jesus.
“It seems nowadays that we face an unknown path or impasse in political life (sic) between the new Israeli government and the new Palestinian government,” they said in their message.
The Church leaders reproached the international community for withholding aid from the Palestinian people. “It is not permitted to boycott a people on whom oppressions and injustices were and are imposed, while the international community remained so far paralyzed in putting an end to these oppressions, and therefore this paralysis gave birth to violence, terrorism and the humiliation of the human person [sic],” they said.
“Instead of boycotting, we appeal to the International Community to seize the opportunity of this phase in history of the conflict in order to try seriously to put an end to the suffering,” they said.
In their appeal, Church leaders also addressed the leaders of Israel and Palestine, saying that security, justice and peace are possible if there is a sincere will on their part.
Finally, the Church leaders appeal to Christians around the world who they say share with their leaders “the responsibility of reconciliation in this Holy Land.”
The leaders urged them to put pressure on their respective governments and their national media to help bring about reconciliation and to reflect on the impact the Security Wall that Israel is building is having on the dignity of the people.
The appeal is signed by Greek-Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, Roman Catholic Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, Armenian Orthodox Patriarch Torkom I Manooghian, Custos of the Holy Land Fr. Pierbattista Pizziballa, OFM, Coptic Orthodox Archbishop Anba Abraham, Syrian-Orthodox Archbishop Swerios Malki Murad, Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop Abouna Grima, Maronite Archbishop Paul Sayyah, Anglican Bishop Riah Abu el-Assal, Lutheran Bishop Mounib Younan, Syrian-Catholic Bishop Pierre Malki, Armenian Catholic Rev. Raphael Minassian, and Greek Catholic Archimandrite Mtanios Haddad.
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These guys would have sent David out to play nice with Goliath.
They are speaking under duress.
I didn't know Palestinians produced anything to boycott.
No kidding. They've been living too close to Muslims for too long. Their brains have become atophied.
If the so-called "Palestinians" knew Jesus was having a pizza, they'd bomb the place just to be able to say they did. The Christians have to know that.
"Atrophied"
It may come as a surprise to you but not all Palestinians are Muslims. Jerusalem. Bethlehem. Nazareth. The Galilee. These are the places where Christianity began. These christians are now being driven out of their homeland.
Hader Youwakim, a taxi driver in Bethlehem, kisses the Christian icon he wears around his neck.
So the Christian leadership supports an Islamist Terrorist government like Hamas? For shame! Things will only get worse for Palestinian Christians under the Saracen yoke of Shariah law.
These places were all Jewish until the Babylonian and Roman exiles and their colonization by new religions.
These christians are now being driven out of their homeland.
By the big bad Jews, of course.
I bet you hate John Hagee.
Unfortunately, no. Middle Eastern chr*stians are the most anti-Semitic on earth.
It's too bad American Bible Fundamentalists know absolutely nothing about real chr*stianity. Maybe they'd consider Noachism then.
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No, and you won't. They hate Jews. They hate them so much that (according to Fr. Neuhaus) "palestinian" chr*stians won't even read the "old testament" because it endorses the Israeli position!
In the "palestinian" chr*stians you have the convergence of the worst of all possible worlds: 1)classic chr*stian anti-Semitism, 2)an "indigenous" "colonized" people who can get away with it, 3)the worst case of chr*stian "identity" outside the "aryan nations" (they're convinced they are the direct lineal descendants of the very first Jewish chr*stians although that is impossible), and 4)a minority "inferiority complex" that leads them to try to be more moslem than the moslems.
For years Nazareth (a chr*stian Arab city) had a Communist mayor, thanks to chr*stian support.
These are the churches who declared "Zionist chr*stianity isn't chr*stianity at all." Ironically, they're right. American-style Bible Fundamentalists have only the most tenuous connection to historical chr*stianity, and everyone would be better off if it were finally broken.
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