Good question. The Pope invites then, then doesn't participate. What's up with that?
The pope has commented - Peace is possible in Middle East, pope says at synod's closing Mass
If you have been following the situation in the Holy Land, Israel has set up walls to separate the Palestinians from the State of Israel. The end result has been turmoil.
Palestinian Christians Barred From Jerusalem for Easter
The Jews fled Israel in the 1st century. Then, in 1948, the UN established the State of Israel. Palestinian families, who had lived in the same village for hundreds of years, had their homes taken away from them, packed up in buses and shuttled to a new settlement.
The community of Arab Christians is dwindling in the Holy Land
Many of these christians have lost their jobs and have no way to support their families.