Fighting in the West Bank accelerates a gradual outflow of Christians from the Holy Land,especialy in the Bethlehem area.
The Associated Press, Mon 28 May 2001
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TOP STORIES \ May 24, 2001
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Arabic Christian Satellite channel reaches millions of viewers from Morroco to Iran, in six different time zones
By Dan Wooding, ASSIST NEWS SERVICE,May 24, 2001
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ISRAEL \ May 24, 2001 3993
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 4460
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 4689
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 8006
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 5309
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 4236
Rev Mary McLauchlan told the board: "It cannot be good stewardship to invest all world mission finances in one set of buildings"
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TOP STORIES \ May 15, 2001 4444
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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