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News Jerusalem patriarch rues Israeli wall, says half of Christians will leave Holy Land by 2016
Jerusalem patriarch rues Israeli wall, says half of Christians will leave Holy Land by 2016
Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:09
CWNews.com - Lamenting the effects of Israel’s security wall upon the Palestinian Christian communion, Patriarch Fouad Twal, Archbishop of Jerusalem, predicted that the number of Christians would dwindle from 10,000 today to 5,000 in 2016 because of emigration fostered by Israel’s security wall.
The wall has “enclosed many Palestinians in ghetto-like areas where access to work, medical care, schooling and other basic services have been badly affected,” he said. “We have a new generation of Christians who cannot visit the holy places of their faith that are only a few kilometers from their place of residence.”
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