Alexander Münch: Church of the Holy Sepulchre

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David Ben Gurion : ---- " If you believe in ISRAEL, you can't call yourself - ATHEIST "!... "In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles" ... Ada,this one is for you!... "The knowledge of how to FEAR what ought to be feared and how not to FEAR what ought not to be feared is called - COURAGE"... "Anyone who believes you can't change HISTORY has never tried to write his MEMORIES"... "I don't know what the people WANT ! All I know is what they NEED"... " Well done, now give it back to them." ( Spoken to Louis Nir in June 1967, after his unit captured Hebron in the Six-Day War )... "UM - SHMUM" ( The UN - Bla Bla Bla ! ) ... "If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert"...

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Happy Easter to my Christian Infidel friends!

http://goo.gl/RnRtz

20 thousand Copts submitted applications to allow them to enter Israel and visit Jerusalem during the Coptic Easter.
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(18 thousand Copts have a permit to enter Israel.)

The applications were rejected by the Orthodox Church 'Saint Helena' in Jerusalem coz of its adherence to the Pope's (Shenouda III) decision, which prevents Copts from visiting Jerusalem... "due to Israeli occupation!..."

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http://goo.gl/k984u (Ar)

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The remaining Coptic Churches in Egypt are not 'occupied'... (Yet!...)

http://tl.gd/gs1pgv
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre

The site is venerated as Golgotha , (the Hill of Calvary), where Jesus was crucified, and is said to also contain the place where Jesus was buried (the sepulchre). The church has been an important Christian pilgrimage destination since at least the 4th century, as the purported site of the resurrection of Jesus. Today it also serves as the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, while control of the building is shared between several Christian churches and secular entities in complicated arrangements essentially unchanged for centuries. Today, the church is home to Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism. The church is also of limited importance to Anglican and Protestant Christians.