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    Who?
    Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Vatican's Council for Interreligious Dialogue, said Friday.
    "Let's suppose that tomorrow part of Jerusalem belongs to a Palestinian state: one morning a group of fundamentalist Muslims could decide to build a mosque where the Holy Sepulchre stands," he added.

    The Vatican says the answer is to have the global community regulate the sites -- and it favours handing the task to a "large group" of states, rather than placing it in the hands of the United Nations Security Council or Europe.

    "The sacred and unique character of the area must be safeguarded and it can only be done with a special, internationally-guaranteed statute," Tauran said.
    http://news.yahoo.com/jerusalem-holy...155149896.html

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    Re: Jerusalem holy sites 'need special status': cardinal

    Wondering who he has in mind for the large group of states if not the UN or EU ???????

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      Re: Jerusalem holy sites 'need special status': cardinal

      Ooops must have missed it.
      Sorry.
      My post is a duplicate
      http://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/fo...ad.php?t=37375
      Last edited by SAT; 12-02-2011, 06:25 PM.

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        Re: Jerusalem holy sites 'need special status': cardinal

        OK cnav now you are messing with my head??? lol

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          Re: Jerusalem holy sites 'need special status': cardinal

          Originally posted by cnav View Post
          Wondering who he has in mind for the large group of states if not the UN or EU ???????
          Or as he is involved with...
          the Vatican's Council for Interreligious Dialogue
          Maybe an interfaith group????

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            Re: Jerusalem holy sites 'need special status': cardinal

            Maybe an interfaith group????
            Like the one based in Vienna??

            Opening planned January 2012 (Wondering if it will be the 5th!)

            http://www.isria.com/pages/14_October_2011_129.php

            Spindelegger said shortly after the signing ceremony today. “With this new Centre, this dialogue is given its first permanent and stable international platform. Austria feels that the Centre will play an important role in preventing and mastering conflicts and in consolidating peace.”

            “The Centre is a great asset for Vienna, that is home to numerous international organisations, as it fits Austria’s tradition as a hub of international dialogue and peace perfectly. It is a great opportunity to provide a well-structured foundation with regulatory framework to the dialogue of religious communities and ideologies

            It is planned to cooperate closely with non-governmental organisations and with experts in Austria as well as internationally. It is expected that more states and international organisations will join the Centre. The structures of the King Abdullah Centre have been designed in such a way that no single religion will play a dominating role or prevail over others. Decisions will be taken jointly. The Foreign Minister made it very clear: “It is a centre of the world’s religions and not a private missionary base. It cannot be abused as a propaganda centre by one contractual state or individual religious movement.”

            The Holy See, represented at the signing ceremony among others by the President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, stated its general interest in obtaining observer status with the new organisation and actively participating in its work.

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