Holy Land Church leaders: ‘peace
agreement must be based on equal rights and dignity'
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| Jerusalem (ANSA) |
Catholic Church leaders in the Holy Land react to the US
President’s ‘Peace to Prosperity Plan’ describing it as a unilateral initiative
that does not give dignity and rights to the Palestinians.
By Linda Bordoni
In a statement released
by the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land following the
presentation of US President Donald Trump’s Peace-to-Prosperity
Plan, the Church leaders invite all Christians to pray for a just
solution for the Holy Land question and express their opinion that “this plan
will bring no solution but rather will create more tensions and probably more
violence and bloodshed,” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The plan, released by the White House on Tuesday, proposes
the possibility of a future independent Palestinian State and the recognition
of Israeli sovereignty over West Bank settlements, creating Israeli enclave
communities.
It also recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital while
allowing for a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem, where, according to the
plan, the U.S. would build a future embassy to the Palestinian State.
The group of Church leaders that includes Catholic bishops
and patriarchs of different rights and the Franciscan Custodians of the Holy
Land, describe the plan a “unilateral initiative” that does not give “dignity
and rights” to the Palestinians.
They say that the plan “endorses almost all the demands of
one side, the Israeli one, and its political agenda" while not really
taking "into considerations the just demands of the Palestinian people for
their homeland, their rights and dignified life.”
They go on to assert that they “expect that the previous
agreements signed between the two parties be respected and improved upon the
basis of complete human equality among peoples.”
The statement concludes inviting all world Christian
Churches “to pray for the Holy Land, to work towards justice and peace and to
be the voice of the voiceless.”
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