{"id":1218,"date":"2012-04-09T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:57:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T21:57:18","slug":"many-palestinian-christians-cant-get-to-jerusalem-for-easter-festivities-they-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/many-palestinian-christians-cant-get-to-jerusalem-for-easter-festivities-they-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Palestinian Christians can&#8217;t get to Jerusalem for Holy Week, they say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1219\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/04\/holyweekforeigners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1219\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1219\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/04\/holyweekforeigners-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/04\/holyweekforeigners-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/04\/holyweekforeigners.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Groups come from all around the world to take part in Easter festivities, while Palestinian Christians say many are not allowed to enter Jerusalem because they are not given permits.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Palestinian Christians say it is ironic that people can come from all over the world to commemorate Holy Week services\u00a0in Jerusalem while brothers and sisters in Christ 5 or 6 miles away aren&#8217;t allowed because they don&#8217;t get permits.\u00a0 They say international law would say that free access to holy places should be free access, without the need for a permit.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian Christians say\u00a0Israel issues 2,000 to 3,000 permits each year through churches for pilgrims to enter the city, while Israel claims it issues\u00a020,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/walkinjerusalem.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/holy-week.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read\u00a0Pastor Fred Strickert&#8217;s Holy Week blog <\/a>with photos of the Holy Week\u00a0services this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/richard-stearns\/a-dark-easter-for-palesti_b_1404113.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read an article by Richard Stearns, head of World Vision\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/04\/05\/ambassador-michael-oren-richard-stearns_n_1407200.html?1333666990\" target=\"_blank\">Read Ambassador\u00a0Oren&#8217;s response here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian Christians say it is ironic that people can come from all over the world to commemorate Holy Week services\u00a0in Jerusalem while brothers and sisters in Christ 5 or 6 miles away aren&#8217;t allowed because they don&#8217;t get permits.\u00a0 They say international law would say that free access to holy places should be free access, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,1400,7680],"tags":[254,8139,8140],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerusalem","category-post","category-palestinian-christians","tag-easter","tag-holy-week","tag-permits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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