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July 20, 2017

Jerusalem Christian leaders concerned with increased tension in Old City

Israeli border police make a Palestinian face the wall for a body security check on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem's Old City Oct. 18, 2015. Following a mid-July shooting deaths of two Israeli policemen and three gunmen, tension has been running high in the Old City.

JERUSALEM – The heads of Jerusalem's Christian churches expressed "serious concern" over an escalation in tensions in Jerusalem's Old City as hostilities remained high following the mid-July shooting deaths of two Israeli policemen and three gunmen on the Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Published in International
May 15, 2016

Increasing Jewish settlements cause unease in Jerusalem's Old City

An Orthodox Jewish woman walks with her children on the roof in the Arab section of the Old City of Jerusalem on her way from an Israeli settlement March 26. The Jewish settlement is near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Church of the Redeemer in the Christian Quarter of the Old City.

JERUSALEM – On a tidy residential street of the Christian Quarter of the Old City, boys still play with marbles along the cobblestones, and neighbours call out to one another from balconies abloom with red carnations.

Published in International