WASHINGTON, D.C. There are more than an estimated 400,000 Christian Palestinians in the United States, more than double the Christians remaining in Israel and the Palestinian territories and this issue irks the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, who has come here again this month, as
he has done for the last three years, to advocate that they maintain their ties to the motherland and their co-religionists.
"What is happening today," Patriarch Michel Sabbah said of the grim realities of life in the Occupied Territories,
"is so inhuman, it cannot be coming from (the Jewish) people, who believe in God."
Addressing the Fourth Annual Conference of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF) in Washington last weekend, he said: "We look to the land, to the occupation, to the resistance to the occupation,
"What is happening today," Patriarch Michel Sabbah said of the grim realities of life in the Occupied Territories,
"is so inhuman, it cannot be coming from (the Jewish) people, who believe in God."
Addressing the Fourth Annual Conference of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF) in Washington last weekend, he said: "We look to the land, to the occupation, to the resistance to the occupation,
and to the internal cycle of violence, which encircles the daily life of so many human beings, and among (all this) we find the small Palestinian Christian community."
The patriarch, a native of Nazareth and the first Palestinian to be named to this high church position by the pontiff, spent three days in Washington talking, in part, at Georgetown University's Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding, which was established by a major donation from a Palestinian philanthropist, American church officials and with the media, locally and internationally. But he did not meet any U.S. officials.
The patriarch, a native of Nazareth and the first Palestinian to be named to this high church position by the pontiff, spent three days in Washington talking, in part, at Georgetown University's Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding, which was established by a major donation from a Palestinian philanthropist, American church officials and with the media, locally and internationally. But he did not meet any U.S. officials.