Barring Jerusalem Patriarch from Church of the Holy Sepulchre marks Israel’s latest move to control Christian and Muslim sites

One year ago, on April 13, 2025, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, participated in Palm Sunday processions and prayer at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, but this year he was banned. (Credit Image: © Nir Alon/ZUMA Press Wire APA Images)“Israel is seeking to exploit the war … to impose new realities and facts on Jerusalem,” says Greek Orthodox Archbishop Attalah Hanna. “[This] is an attack on Jerusalem, its identity, its history, its heritage as Christian and Islamic…

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