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ShareJames Hider in Jerusalem Graphic: Pope’s speech in detail Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Israel yesterday to make an appeal for peace in the Middle East, calling for the creation of a Palestinian homeland alongside the Jewish state. In his address after stepping off an aircraft from Jordan, the Pope — on his first trip [...]

Share  By Haaretz Service and News Agencies A Palestinian official says the Palestinian Authority has scrapped plans to host Pope Benedict XVI next week on a stage near the West Bank separation fence. Palestinian say they had hoped that receiving the pope next to a towering cement wall and military watchtower inside the Aida refugee [...]

Share     By Tariq Ramadan In order to avoid controversies, official voices from the Vatican have been trying to explain that the Pope’s visit to the Middle East is not political. It should be understood as a “pilgrimage”, aiming to spread a “religious message” of peace.   All these terminological contortions will change nothing [...]

Share  AMMAN, (PIC)– The prominent Palestinian Christian figure archbishop Atallah Hanna has called on the Arab countries to immediately mobilize to save the occupied city of Jerusalem of the persistent Israeli activities to judaize it, stressing that there will be no peace in the region till Jerusalem is returned to the Palestinians. The archbishop call [...]