HCEF News & Articles 4-12-2004
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Easter Message from H.B. Michel Sabbah, the Latin Patriarch
of Jerusalem
Dear Brothers and Sisters
Here we are meeting anew by the holy tomb of the Risen Lord Jesus Christ. We
meet to glorify God who "in his great mercy has given us a new birth into a
living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into a
heritage that can never be spoiled or soiled and never fade away" (I Pt 1:3-4).
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Easter Message from Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal, Anglican
Bishop of Jerusalem
06-Apr-04
Easter in Jerusalem
April 11th, 2004
HE IS RISEN
Salaam and grace to you from our Lord Jesus Christ the risen from the dead, and
from Jerusalem, the Mother City of our faith, the city of the Resurrection.
On behalf of our Episcopal Diocese - the Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle
East - both lay and ordained - I wish you God's richest blessings this
Easter-tide and encourage you to continue to pray for us and with us, so that He
who rose from the dead will enable our land, His Land, the Land of the Holy One,
to rise from the death in which it finds itself in. Pray also that all of us be
empowered by His Spirit to share hope in this hopeless situation, and bring life
even in the midst of death.
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Apostolic Delegate in Jerusalem Protests Lack of Visas
JERUSALEM, APRIL 8, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A papal representative in Jerusalem
has presented a complaint to Israel's interior minister and foreign minister
about the visa problems of priests and religious in the Holy Land.
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The Miracle of the Holy Fire
12-Apr-04
Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D.
The entire Christian community in Jerusalem today gathered to witness the
greatest of all miracles-the Miracle of the Holy Fire. It was the first time I
was not bothered by the soldiers, the police, the large crowds, the noise, the
drums of the Boys Scouts and the Girl Scouts anxiously waiting to receive the
Holy Fire from the Life Giving Tomb of Christ in the Holy Sepulchre.
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An Easter story in Jerusalem: Israel accused of
discriminating against Catholic priests
12-Apr-04
Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem and Peter Popham in Rome
The Independent
As it has on the eve of every Easter for the best part of nine centuries, a
procession of clergy wound its way yesterday afternoon behind a tall silver
cross through the alleys of Jerusalem's Old City from the Latin Patriarchate for
the three-hour Holy Thursday mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
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