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Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem, West Bank, Oct. 6. Violence in Israel and the West Bank has increased in October.(CNS photo/Abed Al Haslhamoun, EPA)
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Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
"The Temple Mount has come to symbolize a national focal point in which the fate of the whole Jewish sovereignty of the Land of Israel is to be decided." A parallel process has occurred for Muslims over the past 20 years, and the compound has become first and foremost a symbol of nationalism, with the Al-Aqsa mosque coming to define Palestinian identity as Arabs.
A Palestinian woman looks out a bus window during clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops in Hebron, West Bank, Oct. 4. (CNS photo/Mussa Qawasma, Reuters)
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Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
Unrest flared in early October throughout the West Bank and Jerusalem, which has experienced tensions during September, largely over the status of the contested holy site of the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif.
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Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
Since hundreds of olive trees were uprooted to make room for a separation barrier through the Cremisan Valley adjacent to this largely Christian village, Father Aktham Hijazin, Annunciation Parish priest, has been celebrating Mass daily behind red-and-white police tape.
Israeli Arab Christians demonstrate outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem Sept. 6, to protest government budget cuts to their schools. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)
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Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
As Israeli students began their second week of classes Sept. 6, thousands of students and teachers from Christian schools converged in front of the Israeli prime minister's office to protest government budget cuts to their schools.Chanting slogans, waving banners and signs, and pounding on metal
Father Souhail Khoury blesses a baby after Easter Monday Mass at St. Mary's Church in Iqrit, Israel, April 13. The residents were expelled by the Israeli army in 1948 and have never been able to permanently return to the village. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)
Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
For the elders of Iqrit, their biggest regret in life is not having been able to raise their children together.On April 13, they congregated with the younger generations in the old Church of St. Mary for Easter Monday Mass in this destroyed Melkite village perched on a sloping hill in Western Galile
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Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
Aid official says Gazans' situation worse than during war
Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, N.M., center, prays with other bishops from around the world during Mass Jan. 12 at the Carmelite Monastery in Bethlehem, West Bank. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)
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Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
They see signs of resilience, despite immense destruction
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Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
Ending a year that saw the papal visit, a war in Gaza and a resumption of violence in Jerusalem, Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal's Christmas message condemned all instances of violence.The patriarch was called to Amman unexpectedly on Dec. 18, so his message was read by Auxiliary Bishop William Shoma
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Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
Catholic aid workers and clergy are finding that life and coexistence are becoming increasingly difficult in Jerusalem as tensions simmer and violence between Israelis and Palestinians mount with no end in sight.Acts of violence, seemingly one retaliatory measure after another, have occurred since J
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Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
Attachments to holy places should not be a cause of bloodshed, hatred or violence.