Israeli army officers are present around the gates of the Old City and passages that lead to the Holy
Sepulchre, as well as inside the Church itself and on its roof.
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor said the Ethiopian monastery really started as 'mud huts' when the Ethiopian Orthodox Church became self-governing in the early 20th century from the Coptic Patriarchate that subsequently expelled them from the Holy
Sepulchre.
In liturgies quite likely less dramatic than that in the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre, yet equally solemn and joyful, we will light The Sacred Candle of the Resurrection, praying that its light will dispel the darkness of the world.
The Holy Edicule, the shrine that surrounds the rock tomb, sits within the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre.
The news was reported by official Palestinian media and Fides news agency, after representatives of the Churches that administer the Holy
Sepulchre, paid a visit to President Abbas.
The fire mysteriously ignites behind the altar of the Holy
Sepulchre church, built at the site where Jesus Christ was buried and was resurrected on Easter.
The Christian communities emphasised that the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre and the Way of Sorrows are solely of Palestinian heritage and that none of the various occupiers over hundreds of years had dared to restrict worship in them or to put in place conditions controlling access to them for worship.
The Pope will celebrate Mass in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, which is in Palestinian territory, and he will celebrate Mass with the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, in the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem, built over the site where Jesus was reputedly buried after the crucifixion.
However, by the end of 2013 are expected to complete work on regional roads: Angelci-Veljusha-Vodocha-Banica, Radovish-thread-Lubnica, then regional road Kavadarci Mushov
Sepulchre, Struga, Debar-Boškov bridge Garski bridge and Tetovo Jazhince.
It was handed over to the Holy
Sepulchre Church in Ashington as part of the annual Northumberland Miners' Picnic held on Saturday.
Good Friday events began with a mass earlier in the morning at the cavernous Holy
Sepulchre, which was built on the place where tradition holds Jesus was crucified, briefly entombed and resurrected.
They followed his 14 stations, saying a prayer at each and ending at the ancient Holy
Sepulchre church.
The pilgrims were marking Good Friday by walking from the Monastery of the Flagellation along the route now known as the Via Dolorosa or Way of Suffering to the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre. Filipinos, Indians, Spaniards and Sri Lankans were among those who took part in the procession through the Stations of the Cross under the watch of thousands of Israeli police.
KUDE[pounds sterling]S (CyHAN)- The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who arrived in Jerusalem on Friday, was accompanied by a solemn procession of clerics and laypeople on his way from the Jaffa Gate to the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre inside the Old City.
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