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| November 30, 2012
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Vatican praises UN Palestine vote, but seeks guarantees for Jerusalem

Official Vatican statement: ‘The Holy See welcomes with favor the decision of the General Assembly by which Palestine has become a Non-member Observer State of the United Nations,’

By Reuters

 

The Vatican hailed the United Nations’ implicit recognition of a Palestinian state on Thursday and called for an internationally guaranteed special status for Jerusalem, something bound to irritate Israel.

Abbas at the UN General Assembly

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. – Photo by AP

The 193-nation UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution to upgrade the Palestinian Authority’s observer status at the United Nations from “entity” to “non-member state,” the same status as the Vatican. Continue Reading »

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| October 31, 2012
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EXPOSÉ: Italy, The Land of Islam, the First to Fall

Italy’s Education minister: Islam be taught in public schools
Italian court: Nazification of Israel ruled free speech.
Vatican Spoksman: Burning Star of David defended as “freedom of expression”

By Giulio Meotti, Italy

 

The Italian authorities have capitulated to hatred.

Last week Italian education minister Francesco Profumo proposed that Islam be taught in public schools alongside the traditional teaching of Catholicism, while Bishop Mariano Crociata, secretary general of the Italian Episcopal Conference, announced that the Vatican is in favor of building new mosques in Italy.

The European Bishops met with European Muslims in Turin to proclaim the need for the “progressive enculturation of Islam in Europe”. Continue Reading »

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| August 23, 2012
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Vatican appointment is an embarrassment to Israel

The Church’s appointment of archbishop associated with pedophile priests’ scandal as envoy to Jerusalem demonstrates strained Israel-Vatican ties

By Menachem Gantz

 

The decision by Pope Benedict XVI to appoint Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto as the new papal ambassador to the Holy Land is an embarrassment and humiliation for Israel. The new papal nuncio, as the ambassador is known, has been serving as papal envoy to Australia since 2007, and he is expected to replace outgoing Archbishop Antonio Franco after six years of service in Jerusalem.

Strained relations with Vatican?

Strained relations with Vatican?

Franco, who threatened to boycott the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony five years ago, will be remembered in Rome as the envoy who conducted the Catholic Church’s battle to clear the name of Pope Pius XII at the Yad Vashem Museum. Continue Reading »

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| July 3, 2012
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Expose by Giulio Meotti: Catholics Label Rachel’s Tomb a Mosque

The PA wants the Church of the Nativity to be the world’s 1st heritage site, and now they also say that nearby Rachel’s Tomb is a mosque. She lived thousands of years before Mohammed, so they can’t claim her for Islam. Christians are backing them.

By Giulio Meotti

 

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The Palestinian Authority (succeeded in) making a historic bid to list Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity as its first world heritage site under the United Nations.

The PLO knows the consequences of locating King David and Jesus’ city as being in the “country of Palestine”. The final goal is the de-Judaization of the land of Israel.

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| June 13, 2012
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Israel in Secret Pact with Vatican

Will Israel give the Church sovereignty over King David’s Tomb? The sides are talking, but won’t make their agreements public for now.

By Elad Benari

A special meeting was held at the Pope’s palace on Tuesday, attended by delegations from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Vatican. During the meeting, the sides discussed some of the unresolved issues between them.

At the conclusion of the meeting, which was led by Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, the Foreign Ministry released a statement saying, “The talks took place in an open, balanced and constructive environment, during which significant progress was made towards an agreement.” Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2012
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Vatican and Israel sign a historic economic agreement for the first time.

The Vatican is about to “indirectly” recognize Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem, considered by many Palestinians as the capital of their future independent state, it was reported by the news media today.

 

This would be done if the project of an economic agreement between the Jewish state and the Holy See, which contains no distinction between sovereign Israel and the territories occupied by it in 1967, is approved by both parties, the news media reported.

The lack of a preamble containing that distinction is at the center of the tension between Christian denominations and Palestinian Liberation Organization or PLO and the Vatican. Continue Reading »

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| June 11, 2012
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Vatican: Christians expelled from war-torn Syrian town

Most of the city’s 10,000 Christians have fled the city, situated in the battleground province of Homs.

BEIRUT — Much of the Christian population of the besieged Syrian city of Qusair has abandoned the town after an “ultimatum” from the rebel military chief there, reports Agenzia Fides, the official Vatican news agency.The ultimatum expired Thursday, the agency reported, adding that most of the city’s 10,000 Christians have fled the city, situated in the battleground province of Homs.
Christians flee Syrian city

New recruits to the Free Syrian Army participate in a parade last week in Qusair, Syria, near the city of Homs - Photo: AFP/Getty Images

“Some mosques in the city have relaunched the message, announcing from the minarets: ‘Christians must leave Quasir,’ ” read the report from the Vatican agency, which has sought to document the parlous plight of Syria’s ancient Christian community. Continue Reading »

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| March 16, 2012
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Vatican’s twisted priorities

Op-ed: instead of focusing on decline of Arab Christianity, Catholic Church chooses to demonize Israel

In a special interview with Die Tagespost last week, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal, named by Pope Benedict to represent the Vatican in the Jewish State, declared that “Israel’s existence as such has nothing to do with the Bible.” He then compared Christians’ condition in today’s Jerusalem with Jesus’ Passion: “We Christians never forget that even our Lord himself suffered and was mocked in Jerusalem.”

Twal’s position on Israel and the Bible has been embraced at the highest levels in the Catholic Church. Continue Reading »

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