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The Israeli troops stationed inside the Ibrahimi mosque in the occupied Palestinian town of Hebron, apparently disturbed by an increase in worshippers entering the mosque since the Muslim holy month…
Chief Islamic Justice for Palestine, Sheikh Taysir Al Tamimi, said Monday that attacks on churches in Palestine and anywhere in the Islamic world contravene the teachings of Islam, and that…
Israeli soldiers in al-Ram neighborhood at the edge of occupied Jerusalem opened fire at West Bank Palestinians trying to enter Jerusalem to attend the Friday prayers at the Aqsa Mosque.…
The Jerusalem Center for Democracy and Human Rights issued its report for the month of July on Israeli violations in the Governorate of Occupied Jerusalem. A sample of the report…
Top Islamic leaders, including Chief Islamic Justice Sheikh Taysir Al Tamimi, are meeting in Jerusalem today to discuss yesterday’s decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to allow members of Jewish…
Israeli police, who control the entry to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, have been preventing anyone under 40 years old from praying on Thursday and Friday, today firing tear gas…
The Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, along with two Arab members in the Israeli parliament, have called upon the Arab and Muslim community to stand up to…
On terraced fields under the summer sun and the watchful eyes of a small group of Italian priests, weather-beaten workers tend vines ready for transformation into a light Chardonnay, a…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday issued a surprise presidential decree relieving the Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, of his duties, saying that he had reached the pension age. …
Palestinian chief justice Sheikh Tayseer Al-Tamimi has scathingly condemned the most recent invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third most holy site in Islam, by Jewish extremists protected by Israeli…
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat Thursday denounced a decision of Israeli police to allow extremist Jews to enter the al-Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem, the third-holiest site in Islam, and…
In the Jewish suburbs of Akka, a largely Palestinian city inside Israeli borders — a place where Israeli flags regularly fly overhead, incensing the Palestinian-Israeli population, Jewish youth attacked the…
Pilgrims wishing to follow in the footsteps of Jesus to Jerusalem from the place where he raised Lazarus from the dead will soon need their own miracle, as the ancient…
The General Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Ikrema Sabri, said that Israeli occupation authorities are secretly building a synagogue under the holy Al- Aqsa Mosque. Sheikh Sabri said that…
Israeli construction companies, with support from Israeli armed forces, have resumed digging underneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, apparently in a bid to undermine the foundations of the ancient mosque…
An Israeli couple and their daughter were indicted on Thursday for trying to set fire to the Basilica of the Annuciation in Nazareth, one of the holiest sites in Christendom.…
After a Mass meeting held Monday in Jerusalem in which Moslem and Christian religious leaders participated, the group issued a statement condemning the attack on the Basilica of the Annunciation…
The Kadima ruling party has joined a long list of Israeli official and popular institutions that have taken mosques inside Israel, many left empty after the Palestinian population was expelled…
The Orthodox Church has decided to demote Irineos, its former Patriarch of Jerusalem, to the rank of simple monk. Irineos, who has been accused of selling Church land in the…
Leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Holy Land unanimously selected on Monday Archbishop Cornelios, the head of the church’s ecclesiastical court, as a temporary replacement for the embattled…
The highest Christian convention of Orthodox Patriarchs decided Tuesday to dismiss Jerusalem Patriarch Irineos I over responsibility for the latest major Jerusalem property deal with Jewish investors. 13 of the…
The viscous deal between the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and ‘Jewish investors’ in which major property in Omar Ben Al-Khatab square in Jerusalem was presumably sold, was reportedly made by settler…
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew recognized dismissal of the Jerusalem Patriarch Irineuos for his involvement in selling the church property in the old city of Jerusalem to Jewish Investors. Patriarch Bartholomew,…
Monday before noon, dozens of residents were injured in the old city of Jerusalem, one seriously, after the army attacked hundreds of residents who gathered in the area. A local…
Dismissed Greek Orthodox Patriach Irinous I returned, under police protection, to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher Friday night. Irinous I managed to enter the church, but most bishops have…
The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem sold properties inside the Jaffa Gate to a Jewish company to prove to Israel that he does not sympathize with Palestinians and the PLO,…
{mosimage}Friday afternoon, at least ten Palestinian residents were injured after the Israeli police and soldiers attacked them with clubs in the yard of the church of the Holy Sepulcher in…
{mosimage}Reporter Kliman Lipskind, from Israeli newspaper Ma’areev, revealed Friday the original documents concerning the Jerusalem property deal between the Greek Orthodox Church and Jewish investors, saying the documents will be…
Israelipolice released Monday Sheikh Hassan Yousif after being detained for few hours for entering Jerusalem without a permit. Israeli Police detain Sheikh Hassan Yousif Israeli police Sunday detained a Hamas…
Against Israeli security and police expectations, tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers peacefully concluded weekly prayers in Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem on Friday. Amid high alerts of a possible attack…
In a conference held in the city of Nazareth on Thursday night, the local Roman Orthodox denomination accused Patriarch Irinuis I of selling church properties to the Jewish Agency and…
The Rabbis’ Union for the People and Land of Israel, headed by former Israeli chief rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu and Avraham Shapira, called Thursday security forces to refuse orders to evacuate…
The Israeli police revealed that extremist Jewish groups are considering bombings at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem; and decided to increase police force at the mosque area. Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli…
Vatican officials confirmed the death of Pope John Paul II, who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than 25 years, on Saturday at night, at the age of 84.…
Jordan will revoke all powers of attorney given to the Orthodox Church and it will work to cancel the sales deals carried out recently by the Church, Palestinian sources reported…
The former Greek Orthodox Church treasurer Nicolas Papadimos, who fled the country after concluding a deal selling major church property in Jerusalem to Jewish investors, told Tuesday a Greek newspaper…
The Israeli police said that it issued a gag order barring activists of an Israeli right wing group decided to rally and enter Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on April 10th,…
Thousands of Palestinians from Nazareth area in the upper Galilee took the streets of the city protesting the alleged sales deal though which the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate sold major church…
The General Secretary of the Greek Orthodox Chruch Archbishop Arastachios called Thursdays Patriarch Irinous to resign following the scandal of a ‘viscous’ land bargain in Jerusalem, through which major church…
The Palestinian cabinet decided Saturday to for a committee to investigate the selling of Omer Ben Al-Khatab square in East Jerusalem to Jewish investors. Most of the sold property belongs…
Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv revealed in a report published on Friday that the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem secretly sold Omar Ben Al-Khatab square to Jewish investors. The square includes restaurants,…
In a pre-Purim sermon at a Jerusalem synagogue, Shas party spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef slammed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his disengagement plan. ‘What a cruel and evil…
The Israeli Knesset discussed on Wednesday the threats against Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem after the Shabak and other security devices warned of a possible attack by extremist Jewish groups in…
The Israeli police is demanding an additional NIS 61 million to counter increasingly grave threats of an attack by Jewish extremists on Haram Al_Sharif in Jerusalem. In recent weeks, Israeli…
The Israeli media revealed on Thursday that the Israeli security received lately several warnings that extremist right wing Jewish groups are planning to cary out bombings in Al-Aqsa mosque in…