Topic: Israeli-Palestinian conflict

• The freeing of Gilad Shalit shows Israel’s humanity – and Hamas’s blood-chilling cruelty

  Posted on 18 October 2011. Tags: Brian Keenan, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, John McCarthy, Terry Waite

  His kidnapping five years ago has done the Palestinian cause no favours

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• It’s hardly anti-Semitic to say that Palestinians have been treated unjustly

  Posted on 01 November 2010. Tags: anti-Semitism, Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jerusalem Post, Middle East, Middle East Christians, Middle East Synod, Nostra aetate, Second Vatican Council, Synod of Bishops for the Middle East

  Middle East bishops had a right to speak up for Palestinians at the Synod

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• Pope: we can never give up on peace

  Posted on 27 October 2010. Tags: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, peace, Pope Benedict XVI, Synod of Bishops for the Middle East

  Pope Benedict XVI closes Middle East Synod by urging bishops never to resign themselves ‘to the absence of peace’

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• Pope meets Israeli president

  Posted on 03 September 2010. Tags: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Pope Benedict XVI, Shimon Peres

  The two men expressed hope that the renewal of talks in Washington would lead to ‘lasting peace’

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• Time to stop the Christian exodus from the Middle East, says Vatican

  Posted on 11 June 2010. Tags: Copts, Cyprus, exodus, human rights, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Philippines, Pope Benedict XVI, religious freedom, South Asia, The Holy Land, Turkey, Vatican

  The plight of Christians in the Middle East is threatened by an “extremist current” of “political Islam” and is being ignored by the world, the Pope has said ahead of a new Vatican report

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