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Italian Premier Condemns Israel
(MENAFN) Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday criticized Israel's decision to bar Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa from entering a church in Jerusalem, calling it an “offense” to religious liberty.
"Preventing the Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Custodian of the Holy Land from entering, especially on a solemnity as central to the faith as Palm Sunday, constitutes an offense not only to believers, but to every community that recognizes religious freedom," Meloni remarked in a statement released by the government.
The Italian administration also conveyed its "closeness" to the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pizzaballa, who was stopped from accessing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, thus unable to celebrate Palm Sunday Mass.
"The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is a sacred place of Christianity, and as such it must be preserved and protected for the celebration of sacred rites," the Prime Minister added in her statement.
"Preventing the Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Custodian of the Holy Land from entering, especially on a solemnity as central to the faith as Palm Sunday, constitutes an offense not only to believers, but to every community that recognizes religious freedom," Meloni remarked in a statement released by the government.
The Italian administration also conveyed its "closeness" to the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pizzaballa, who was stopped from accessing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, thus unable to celebrate Palm Sunday Mass.
"The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is a sacred place of Christianity, and as such it must be preserved and protected for the celebration of sacred rites," the Prime Minister added in her statement.
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