Leaders of the four main Christian churches of Ireland paid a scheduled, invited visit to Israel to honor the dead killed in the Holocaust®. The four ministers and priests went to visit the Wailing Wall. They were told to remove their crosses or they couldn't go. They passed it up!

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Holy site 'mishap' for church leaders

Holy site 'mishap' for church leaders

Thursday, 1 May 2008 22:55

The Israeli government has offered to arrange a scheduled visit by the leaders of Ireland's four main churches to the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
It follows what one Israeli cabinet minister, Isaac Herzog, called this morning's 'mishap', when the delegation was turned away from Judaism's holiest site because they were wearing crucifixes.

The action is understood to have been prompted by an intervention from a Jewish settler.

The Irish churchmen wore their crosses at last night's national holy memorial service in the Holy City, which was attended by survivors of the 6m mostly Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as by the full Israeli cabinet.

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