The Vatican Wants to Lay its Hands on Jerusalem

Vatican - Jerusalem (Israel Radio Photo)

The Vatican is now reiterating demands for control of religious sites in Jerusalem. Jordan's occupation 1948-1967 didn't bother them.

“Peace negotiations in the Middle East must tackle the issue of the status of the holy sites of Jerusalem”, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Vatican’s Council for Interreligious Dialogue, declared several days ago in Rome.

The Vatican’s former foreign minister asked to place some Israeli holy places under Vatican authority, alluding to the Cenacle on Mount Zion and the garden of Gethsemane at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

The first site also houses what is referred to as King David’s tomb.

“There will not be peace if the question of the holy sites is not adequately resolved”, Tauran said. “The part of Jerusalem within the walls – with the holy sites of the three religions – is humanity’s heritage. The sacred and unique character of the area must be safeguarded and it can only be done with a special, internationally-guaranteed statute”.

The Israeli government and the Vatican are deadlocked in discussions over the status of the religious sites. Vatican officials are now reiterating their demand for control over the religious sites in the ancient and holy city founded by King David as the capital of ancient Israel and now the capital of the reestablished Jewish state.

Danny Ayalon, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, declared that Israel might consider giving the Vatican “a greater role” in operating the sites. In the last weeks, the Roman Catholic Church’s authorities increased their political initiatives for Catholic control over some sites in Jerusalem.

The Vatican’s former archbishop in Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, just promoted an appeal to the European Union and United States to “stop the Hebraization of Jerusalem”.

Read on: ArutzSheva

Our Comment: For centuries Rome and the Vatican wants to take over Jerusalem, the City of HaShem and MaShiach Yeshua, and internationalise (read: take from its Jewish roots) the Holy City Yerushalayim. We as born-again Christian-Zionists will always oppose and reject the evil religious plots of the Roman Catholic Church ´to Lay its Hands´ on Jerusalem. We always prefer Jerusalem as Gods own City, above Rome and its unbiblical claims in the Holy Land (Israel).

"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May those who love you prosper." (Psalm 122:6)

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