Vatican puts holy sites before people, he says. (Elias Chacour, a Melkite priest from Galilee laments the irony of the dwindling number of Palestinian Christians in the major place of Christian shrines)(Brief Article)

National Catholic Reporter | October 31, 1997| | Copyright

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The "cold stones of the Holy Land" mean more to Vatican officials and many tourists than the lives of the dwindling population of Christians who live there, a prominent Melkite priest from Galilee has charged.

That harsh assessment came from Fr. Elias Chacour, on the last leg of a three-stop visit to the United States in late September. He claims that diplomatic ties between the Vatican and Israel, established in 1994, were aimed primarily at maintaining Rome's access to holy sites in ...

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