In protest, church leaders of all denominations had closed the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre on Sunday.
Church leaders, in closing the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre, said church-owned businesses, which include a hotel and office space in Jerusalem, had enjoyed a tax exemption.
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.
Caption: Pilgrims take part in the Christian Orthodox Holy Fire ceremony at the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City.
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 repairs at the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre are the first in two centuries and will reinforce and conserve the structure.
The Holy Fire, which is ignited every year at the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is to be brought to Bulgaria at 6.
In recent years, Israeli forces have prevented Christians from going to the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre or the Church of Resurrection, the Way of Sorrows and other Christian sites in the holy city.
The Equestrian Order of the Holy
Sepulchre of Jerusalem has an almost thousand-year history: yours is one of the oldest charitable Orders that is still active.
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.
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.
