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...Christians, Jews and Moslems alike, Jerusalem is infinitely more than just an embattled city in the Palestine desert. To Jews, it is, according to Deuteronomy, "the place where Yahweh chose to dwell." For Christian churches, Jerusalem marks the mysterious intersection of eternity and time, the spot where God's crucified son died and then was resurrected. In Moslem legend, it was in Jerusalem that Mohammed, borne from Mecca by a winged mare, ascended to heaven from the site of Judaism's Temple to receive his supreme illumination from God. Although Palestine contains numerous landmarks renowned in religious history...
Christian domination over the Holy City ended three centuries later; in A.D. 638, the troops of the Byzantine Emperor surrendered after an onslaught to the Moslem cavalry of the Caliph Omar. In memory of Mohammed's heavenly visit, the victorious Moslems built the Dome of the Rock over the site of the Old Temple. More often than not, they tolerantly allowed Christians and Jews free access to the shrines of the city. In 1095, however, inspired by rumors of Islamic persecution of pilgrims, Pope Urban II proclaimed a holy crusade to reconquer Jerusalem for Christ. Four years later, mail...
...Latin kingdom founded by the Crusaders lasted scarcely a century. Recaptured by the Saracen King Saladin in 1187, Jerusalem remained in Moslem hands, except for a brief 15-year Christian reconquest, until World War I. The long sleep under Islam brought little peace, however, as Moslems battled for Jerusalem among themselves. The Saracens were soon overthrown by their Egyptian slave guards, the Mamelukes. The Mamelukes were in turn driven out by the Ottoman Turks, who captured the Holy City in 1517 and ruled it for 400 years. Though Christians were allowed to return to the city, a dispute between Greek...
Since capturing and annexing the Old City, Israel has gone out of its way to preserve the sanctity of the Christian, Jewish and Moslem shrines alike. The Knesset has passed laws reaffirming the existing custodial agreements on the shrines and decreeing stiff prison terms for anyone caught desecrating sacred sites. The government has even posted guards at them...
...Portugal's Fatima. In Istanbul last week, the Pope had a warm and fraternal encounter with Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople-but there was none of the drama of their first meeting three years ago on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. Though cordially received by predominantly Moslem Turkey, the Pope drew crowds modest by comparison with the millions who cheered him in Bombay and New York...