Jordan’s has an “historic role in securing the holy sites as well as the Palestinian sovereignty over the West Bank and east Jerusalem”. According to al-Habash, a new agreement was devised in order to coordinate the protection of the al-Aqsa Mosque and all the Muslim and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem. The agreement reiterated Jordan’s… Read More Jordan promise to regain East Jerusalem for Islam
Pope Francis will pray at the tomb of St. Peter, the church’s first pontiff, during a visit to the necropolis under St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. The Vatican said Francis will go into the vast excavation later Monday, a post-Easter holiday at the Holy See. The new pope’s time in the necropolis will be… Read More Francis to pray at “city of the dead” in the Vatican
Roman Catholic Church’s wish for an «ecclesiology of communion» in recognizing the establishment of the Petrine lineage of the Church of Rome. Pope Benedict XVI reached out to Bartholomew I and the Eastern Church Monday in his annual letter to the Patriarch celebrating the Feast of St. Andrew. The message encouraged continued ecumenical talks towards… Read More Pope wants all Christians to accept His claimed succession from Apostle Peter
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