Rest in Peace, John Paul -- Holy Land mourns Pope

Holy Land mourns Pope Herb Keinon and JPost Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 3, 2005

About 150 worshipers, most of them Palestinians, joined by a few pilgrims, gathered at the Church of the Nativity in Jesus' birthplace, the West Bank town of Bethlehem, to celebrate special masses.

According to AFP, other services were held throughout Israel and the Palestinian territories including in Nazareth where flags were flown at half-mast.

Speaking at a service in Nazareth's Basilica of the Annunciation, Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, [Palestinian] the Vatican's senior representative in the Holy Land, said that John Paul's desire for inter-faith reconciliation had been one of the major themes of his papacy.

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