Word: nazareth
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...most sacred Christian sites in the Holy Land - the Israeli government ended up doing what was politically expedient. Israel Wednesday rejected the Vatican?s accusation that the Jewish state was fomenting religious division by permitting the new building next to the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. "In the end it was simply a political decision," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "There are a lot more Muslim voters in Israel than there are Christian voters. That's what influenced the government to accommodate them, even though they had no legitimate historical claim to the land." Local Muslims...
...Nazareth row casts a shadow over the planned visit to Israel by Pope John Paul II next March. But although the Vatican is deeply irritated by Israel's decision, there's no indication thus far that it will postpone the visit. Nazareth Muslim leader Suleiman Abu Ahmed sought to play down divisions, saying, "We are going to build a Mosque to pray to God, the same God of the Christians and the Jews." He promised that the mosque would be "the brother of the church." But worship always carries a political motif in the hotly contested Holy Land. The Nazareth...
...while Israel is being sensitive to Muslim sensibilities, Christian groups are complaining about their treatment at the hands of the Jewish state. Israel's decision to allow the construction of a mosque adjacent to the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth drew a furious response from the Vatican, and raised the possibility of the pope canceling a scheduled Holy Land visit in the New Year. Not that the local constabulary would complain too much if His Holiness bows out. "If he does come, security officials are worried to death that some extremist, either Jewish or Muslim, will try to kill...
...with an entry hole in front. So far, Alon and his colleagues in Operation Kestrel have put up 40 boxes in Jerusalem and 50 in Haifa. "The kestrels are dependent on people," says Alon, who started bird watching as a 13-year-old growing up on a kibbutz near Nazareth, and oversees 16 other conservation programs. "We had eight pairs breeding in our boxes last year. We can't say yet that we've saved them from extinction, but we can say the population is increasing rather than decreasing." A tiny camera inside one of the Jerusalem boxes shoots videos...
...eerie, sonorous sound that plays off of soft, massive murmurs braced against loud declarations by the chorus. The dramatic moments are based on a timing which The Boston Cecilia hits with ease: the narrator will call, "Sie aber sprachen," and the chorus will resound with the answer, "Jesum von Nazareth." The chorus does not back down from the lines which most directly implicate "the Jews". At the proper moments they exhort Pilate to accept Jesus ("Nicht diesen, sondern Barrabam") and crucify him ("Kreuzige! Kreuzige!") with dramatic sincerity. These are the lines both Stephen Jay Gould and certain Christian members...