Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Monday the Latin Patriarch would get “full and rapid entry” to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, after police denied him entry on Palm Sunday.
“I’ve instructed the related authorities that Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch, be granted full and rapid entry to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem,” Netanyahu tweeted on X.
Israeli police had prevented the senior Catholic cleric from getting into Christianity’s most sacred web site to have a good time Palm Sunday mass over what Netanyahu had stated had been safety considerations, upsetting protests from the European Union and a number of other European nations.
Netanyahu elaborated on Israel’s safety considerations in his put up.
“Over the previous a number of days, Iran has repeatedly focused the holy websites of all three monotheistic religions in Jerusalem with ballistic missiles,” he wrote.
“In a single strike, missile fragments crashed meters from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.”
It was to guard worshippers that Israel had requested folks of all faiths to “briefly abstain” from worshipping in any respect the holy websites in Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis, he added.
