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ISRAEL-PALESTINE Christian Palestinians await Christmas with 'bitter taste'
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- Creato: 20 Dicembre 2017
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Concerns about the tensions and that pilgrims will decide to cancel their visit: "We hope, indeed we ask everyone to come, not to cancel their trips". Two days ago, the meeting between the leaders of the Churches and President Abbas. Jerusalem for
Christian Palestinians must be "a city of the world, a universal city, a city of peace".
Jerusalem (AsiaNews) - A Christmas with a "bitter taste". This is how Sobhy Makhoul, deacon of the Maronite Patriarchate of Jerusalem, describes the Palestinian Christian community’s expectation of the Christmas holidays, worried by the tensions and the possibility that many pilgrims will renounce their journey out of fear. The "unfortunate" decision of the American president Donald Trump "has stirred the whole country", and has proved not only "out of place" but also "untimely".