CatholicOnline: “Having access to the Holy City or to churches there especially at this time of year is our normal right as Palestinians,” one of the lucky few who have been granted permission to visit says. “It should not be associated with anything political.”
“It is very painful to see people coming from the whole world, from places [as far as] Japan, and they can easily reach the holy sites while our people and Christians from Iraq, Jordan and other [Arab] countries cannot,” another Christian says. Read more here.
