Column One: After 2,000 years, the churches in Jerusalem go on strike

The Independent - London | November 5, 1999| | Copyright

ALMOST 2,000 years have passed since Joseph and Mary suffered the most famous lock-out in Christian history, but the times, it seems, have come full circle. Today, it is less a question of lack of hotel space as age-old, deeply acrimonious, religious rivalry.

Christian pilgrims to Israel this month will find that they cannot enter the Basilica of the Annunciation - the church in Nazareth supposedly marking the spot where the Archangel Gabriel first told Mary to expect a child. Nor will they be able to genuflect before the place of the Crucifixion, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in ...

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