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...problem came to the fore again last week in Biloxi, Miss., for 665 delegates to the national assembly of the 3 million-member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The Israel issue led to a dispute that stirred passions over six days before the assembly finally approved an eight-page statement. The document is probably the most amicable declaration any U.S. denomination has yet issued on Jewish-Christian relations...
...until his release last September. To him, both Jews and Palestinians have the right to a homeland. Weir is completing a year as the church's Moderator (titular head). Besides amending the section on Israel, Weir's allies, primarily churchmen who have worked in the Middle East, got the document downgraded from a church-policy statement to a study paper, pending further discussions...
...recognizes the overriding spiritual importance of the Holy Land for Jews, but it adds an expression of sympathy for Palestinians and "all people to whom rights of 'land' are currently denied." (In a separate action, the church pledged to counteract bigotry against Muslims and Arabs in the U.S.) The document also considered the touchy matter of converting Jews to Christianity. The approved text asserts that "Christians have no reason to be reluctant in sharing the good news of their faith with anyone." It adds, "Many Jews have been unwilling to accept the Christian claim and have continued in their covenant...
...respect for the continuing validity of Judaism was the important achievement of the assembly. The delegates repudiated the idea that God turned against the Jews because they rejected Jesus as the Messiah, and expressed repentance for Christianity's part in past anti-Semitism. The American Jewish Committee said the document is "potentially of great historic importance" and has "broken significant new ground...
...security guards -- twice the previous number -- and many of them work undercover. France, once accused of lax attention toward the movements and activities of suspected terrorists, now requires all visitors to carry a visa. Cost: $15 for a three-year visa. The bureaucratic inconvenience of obtaining the document does not seem to be deterring tourists. The French consulate in Manhattan has been overwhelmed by a flood of some 2,000 applications a day and has opened a second office to handle the overflow. Jean-Marc Janaillac, director of the French tourist office in New York City, reports that 62% more...