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“The Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, is also closed” due to the wartime cross-country restrictions, the American diplomat stressed.
The Pope appealed “in the name of the Christians of the Middle East and of all women and men of goodwill” for the war to stop.
Official P.A. TV claimed that the limitations were geared to enable Jews to carry out a Passover sacrifice.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom “has helped shape U.S. foreign policy by exposing the world’s most egregious violations of religious freedom,” Sen. Ted Budd told JNS.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says the department has failed to adequately protect people fleeing religious persecution and to penalize violators of religious freedom.
“You can hear the disdain and disrespect shown to the beautiful Jewish families across Belgium,” said Bill White, of comments calling mohels “butchers by day” who circumcise as a “side job.”
The concurrent resolution “supports and encourages practices that exemplify religious freedom in public spaces.”
The proposal was submitted to parliament in the wake of a ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court ordering the government to allow a mixed-gender prayer space at the Western Wall.
The ruling “ensures parents, not government bureaucrats, have the final say in how their children are raised,” Eric Baxter, senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, stated.
The court agreed with the state that “it was premature to decide the law’s constitutionality before it had been enacted.”
An Israel Police spokesman confirmed to JNS that the holiest site for the Jewish people will be open to Jews between 6:30 and 11:30 a.m. daily.
Growing opposition to Israel on the political right is “serious, but thank God, it’s not really an evangelical problem,” Rev. Johnnie Moore told JNS.
