More than 1,500 Orthodox rabbis plan to advertise the centrality of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount to the Jewish people this week in The New York Times.
Jerusalem Post,May 24, 2001
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PALESTINE \\ May 24, 2001
3284 reads
St Andrew's church in Jerusalem, told the general assembly of the church of Scotland bombings and shootings were now commonplace.
Chris Holme, The Herlad, May 24, 2001
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TOP STORIES \\ May 24, 2001 3470 reads
The high priest of the Samaritan community that is known to Christians through the Parable of the Good Samaritan, dies at age 79.
The Samaritans number only about 650 people today
AP Wednesday May 23 6:03 AM ET
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ISRAEL \\ May 20, 2001 4689 reads
Nazareth Village is an attempt to reconstruct life as it would have been lived in the tiny first-century hamlet of Nazareth.
By Allan Rabinowitz, the Jerusalem Post, May 17, 2001
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EGYPT \\ May 18, 2001 4049 reads
A culturally translated version of "Sesame Street" is shown in Egypt and now viewed regularly by 61% of Egyptian children under 8 years .It touches on sensitive issues like the tense relations between Coptic Christians and the Muslim majority.
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2001
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ISRAEL \\ May 17, 2001 3190 reads
Rev Mary McLauchlan told the board: "It cannot be good stewardship to invest all world mission finances in one set of buildings"
From LYNNE ROBERTSON, The Herald, May 23, 2001 -
TOP STORIES \\ May 15, 2001 3305 reads
Moslems loose patience waiting for goverment approval for disputed mosque construction, to be built near the church of Annunciation in Nazareth
Based on Jalal Bana, Haaretz, May 14, 2001
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SYRIA \\ May 15, 2001 4530 reads
Leader of the Greek Catholic Church confined to remark on the refusal of the Maronite patriarch Nasrullah Butrous Sfeir to visit Syria to welcome the Pope.
Syria, Religion, 5/15/2001
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LEBANON \\ May 14, 2001 3602 reads
The conference has recommended further changes to the law to remove the possibility of the perpetrators benefiting from carrying out 'honour killings', when men kill female relatives to redeem the family's name
BBC, From Kim Gattas in Beirut
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