#MorningMonarchy: March 24, 2016
Mormon Mason, White Horse and black bunny + this day in history w/The Great Escape and our song of the day by Barry Adamson on your Morning Monarchy for March 24, 2016.
Easter
Video: Bringing the Holy Fire of Easter through a military checkpoint
The Holy Fire ceremony at Easter is observed every year in Jerusalem, a place holy to the three major monotheistic faiths. But Palestinian Muslims and Christians alike are prevented from freely practicing their long-held traditions there as Israel relentlessly erases their heritage from the city.
Hypocrisy, Triumphalism and a “Corporate Covenant”
… and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
— Isaiah 2:3-4
Christians: Israel violates Palestinian religious freedoms each Easter
Ma’an - April 6, 2012
BETHLEHEM – A group of Christians from East Jerusalem on Sunday said that Israel’s restrictions on Palestinian mobility resulted in violations of religious freedoms.
The statement, signed “Palestinian Christian Organizations in Occupied East Jerusalem,” complained that Christians are often denied access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during the Easter holidays.