A Roman Catholic abbott is lamenting the confrontational end to his tour of Jerusalem after he was ordered to remove his necklace with a cross pendant hanging from it during a visit to the Western Wall.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, blames the recent uptick in attacks in the Christian quarter on radical Jewish extremists feeling empowered and "protected" under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
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The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land has warned in an interview that the rise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government has made life worse