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Gaza Church Opens Doors To Injured, Sick As Hospitals Fill Amid Raging War
St. Philip's church once offered a haven of devotion to Gaza's small Christian community. After nine months of Israeli military action that has devastated the Palestinian enclave's health system, priests have turned it into a hospital.
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Palestinian Christians Bury Dead In Muslim Cemeteries Amid Gaza War Chaos
Too frightened to travel on dangerous roads that lead to their graveyards in Gaza, Palestinian Christians are lowering their loved ones into the ground in Muslim cemeteries amid the chaos of war between Israel and Hamas.
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Over 100 Injured In Clashes At Jerusalem Mosque As Festivals Overlap
More than 100 people were wounded Friday in clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, in fresh violence as Jewish and Christian festivals overlap with Ramadan.
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What's It Like To Be Brother Of Infamous Assassin? Ask The Other Sirhan
In 1948, the Sirhans, who were Christian Palestinians, fled their home in the newly divided Jerusalem. The family slipped away during a letup in the fighting of what became known as the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. The Sirhans were granted Jordanian citizenship, but they would come to see America as their future.
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British Woman Fatally Stabbed In Jerusalem
A Palestinian man fatally stabbed a British woman on Jerusalem's transit network on Friday, Israeli police said, as Christians marked Good Friday and Muslims held prayers at respective holy sites nearby.
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Christians Mark Good Friday in Jerusalem
Christian pilgrims from around the world today joined Palestinian co-religionists in a solemn Easter procession through the walled Old City of Jerusalem.
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Palestinian Christians Urge Stronger Fight Against Islamic State
Some 200 Palestinian Christians staged a candlelit march in Jerusalem Wednesday to mourn Egyptian Copts killed by the Islamic State group in Libya, calling for stronger international action against the jihadists.
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Gaza Church Opens Doors to War Refugees
For the first time in years, Gaza City's Greek Orthodox church is packed to overflowing, having offered refuge to hundreds of Palestinians who fled their homes under Israeli bombardment.
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Pope Francis to visit Middle East in May, meet Orthodox head
Pope Francis is to visit biblical sites in Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories in May, his first trip to the Christian Holy Land as pontiff and only the fourth by a pope since biblical times.
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Barack Obama to visit Jesus birthplace in Bethlehem
US President Barack Obama will visit the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where Christians believe Jesus was born, when he visits the region next week, Palestinian sources said.
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Gaza Church Opens Doors To Injured, Sick As Hospitals Fill Amid Raging War
St. Philip's church once offered a haven of devotion to Gaza's small Christian community. After nine months of Israeli military action that has devastated the Palestinian enclave's health system, priests have turned it into a hospital.
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Palestinian Christians Bury Dead In Muslim Cemeteries Amid Gaza War Chaos
Too frightened to travel on dangerous roads that lead to their graveyards in Gaza, Palestinian Christians are lowering their loved ones into the ground in Muslim cemeteries amid the chaos of war between Israel and Hamas.
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Over 100 Injured In Clashes At Jerusalem Mosque As Festivals Overlap
More than 100 people were wounded Friday in clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, in fresh violence as Jewish and Christian festivals overlap with Ramadan.
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What's It Like To Be Brother Of Infamous Assassin? Ask The Other Sirhan
In 1948, the Sirhans, who were Christian Palestinians, fled their home in the newly divided Jerusalem. The family slipped away during a letup in the fighting of what became known as the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. The Sirhans were granted Jordanian citizenship, but they would come to see America as their future.
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British Woman Fatally Stabbed In Jerusalem
A Palestinian man fatally stabbed a British woman on Jerusalem's transit network on Friday, Israeli police said, as Christians marked Good Friday and Muslims held prayers at respective holy sites nearby.
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Christians Mark Good Friday in Jerusalem
Christian pilgrims from around the world today joined Palestinian co-religionists in a solemn Easter procession through the walled Old City of Jerusalem.
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Palestinian Christians Urge Stronger Fight Against Islamic State
Some 200 Palestinian Christians staged a candlelit march in Jerusalem Wednesday to mourn Egyptian Copts killed by the Islamic State group in Libya, calling for stronger international action against the jihadists.
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Gaza Church Opens Doors to War Refugees
For the first time in years, Gaza City's Greek Orthodox church is packed to overflowing, having offered refuge to hundreds of Palestinians who fled their homes under Israeli bombardment.
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Pope Francis to visit Middle East in May, meet Orthodox head
Pope Francis is to visit biblical sites in Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories in May, his first trip to the Christian Holy Land as pontiff and only the fourth by a pope since biblical times.
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Barack Obama to visit Jesus birthplace in Bethlehem
US President Barack Obama will visit the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where Christians believe Jesus was born, when he visits the region next week, Palestinian sources said.
