- Title: JERUSALEM: EASTER SERVICES.
- Date: 15th April 2001
- Summary: JERUSALEM (APRIL 15, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV: PEOPLE IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE (AUDIO OF CHURCH BELLS) 0.05 2. GV/MV/CU: VARIOUS OF CHRISTIANS KISSING THE STONE WHERE CHRIST WAS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS/ CLOSE-UP MOSAIC OF CHRIST ON CHURCH WALL (4 SHOTS) 0.21 3. GV: PRIESTS AND CHURCH OFFICIALS AT MASS 0.28 4. MCU: TWO TOURISTS PHOTOGRAPHING AND RECORDING THE SERVICE 0.35 5. MCU: NUN STANDING BY A TORCH 0.41 6. MV/TRACK: CHURCH OFFICIALS, NUNS AND BELIEVERS STANDING TOGETHER AND SINGING/ PRIESTS SINGING 0.52 7. VARIOUS: LATIN PATRIARCH, MICHEL SABBAH, GIVING BELIEVERS HOLY BREAD/ PRIESTS AT CEREMONIAL TABLE/ PRIESTS PRAYING/ PRIEST WAVING INCENSE IN FRONT OF CEREMONIAL TABLE/ PRIEST RECITING PRAYER/ PRIEST HOLDING UP HOLY BREAD WHILE PRAYING/ CLOSE-UP PRIEST RECITING PRAYER AND HOLDING UP CEREMONIAL CUP (9 SHOTS) 2.34 8. VARIOUS: PRIEST GIVING SERVICE AT GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE/ CHRISTIANS SINGING (9 SHOTS) 3.17 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: JERUSALEM
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- Country: Israel
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- Story Text: The Palestinian patriarch of the Roman Catholic Church
in the Holy Land called in his Easter homily for religious
unity in the Holy Land and an end to deadly military force.
Amid heavy Israeli security, thousands of Christians have
celebrated Easter in Jerusalem.
But the celebrations have been dampened by six-and-a-half
months of a violent Palestinian uprising against Israeli
occupation.
Christians flocked to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
for Easter mass where it is believed Jesus Christ was
crucified and buried.
The church is in the ancient walled Old City just metres
from al-Aqsa mosque -- Islam's third most important site after
Makkah and Madinah -- and the Temple Mount, Judaism's most
sacred site.
But the last six and a a half months of violence have
dampened celebrations. Unrest has surged over the past few
days as Israel ended its week-long Passover holiday.
Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah spoke about the unrest in an
apparent message to Israel during his sermon to the faithful
on Sunday.
"Many put the emphasis today on the right of the stronger,
and on the force which can impose itself, through sieges,
bombardments or killings," he said.
"All these are means which can destroy houses, kill human
persons, but cannot kill the soul of a people, neither wipe
off the image of God in any person nor can it kill our hope,"
the Palestinian patriarch added.
As part of the sermon which was released in a statement
before delivery in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Sabbah
said, "It is time for the political leaders to listen and to
obey the words of the Psalmist: 'You, earthly rulers, learn
your lesson. In fear be submissive to God...lest he be angry
and your way come to nothing' (Psalms 2:10)."
Earlier on Sunday hundreds of Christians celebrated the
resurrection of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem's Garden of
Gethsemane.
The Garden of Gethsemane is where the faithful believe Jesus
was arrested prior to crucifixion.
The service was conducted in English and was to be repeated
in other languages throughout the morning.
People gathered along the hillside to sing praise and
listen to the service. The faithful sang, "Jesus has risen",
accompanied by musicians in the joyful chorus.
The Easter celebrations in Jerusalem, a city sacred to
Christianity, Judaism and Islam, took place against the
backdrop of six-and-a-half months of a violent Palestinian
uprising against Israeli occupation.
At least 376 Palestinians, 13 Israeli Arabs and 71 other
Israelis have been killed in the uprising that began last
September after U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations deadlocked.
Israel has imposed closures on Palestinian-ruled areas in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip for what it calls security
measures. Palestinians say it is collective punishment.
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