Misery tempts Palestinian Christians to flee
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Despairing of life under Israeli occupation, many Palestinian Christians are moving abroad, threatening their ancient links to Bethlehem and the land where Jesus was born.
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For most Christians in America, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and Tel Aviv usually are just names in the news, far-away places where there always seems to be a bloody conflict between Jews and Muslims.
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Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Nabil Sha&#39;ath was forced to leave a tent set up by families of Palestinian prisoners after the mothers of some of them hurled abuse at him.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Local authorities began evacuating hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday as a battle raged between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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Viewpoint: The West is betting that continued Palestinian misery will force Hamas leaders to recognize Israel. But the strategy is as misguided as it is cruel
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For many Palestinian Jerusalemites, a trip to school or work is complicated by multiple checkpoint crossings. Part 2 of three.
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Hundreds of Fatah loyalists fled Hamas-controlled Gaza by land and sea on Saturday as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas prepared to swear in a new government in the West Bank that will bring an end to a U.S.-led aid embargo.
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Comment is free: Karen Koning AbuZayd: Palestinian suffering has reached new depths. Peace cannot be built by reducing 1.5m people to a state of abject destitution
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Hundreds of Palestinians were trying to reach a key Islamic shrine in Jerusalem on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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Strumming guitars and banging bongos, Christian pilgrims journeyed to Israel&#039;s dusty border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday to offer support to Israeli troops participating in the military action.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum. By Ben Lynfield | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Hundreds of Palestinians fled Hamas-controlled Gaza by land and sea on Saturday to the West Bank where President Mahmoud Abbas prepared to swear in a new government that will bring an end to a U.S.-led aid embargo.
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ISMAILIA, Egypt  - Stranded Palestinian haj pilgrims protesting at Egypt's refusal to allow them to return to Gaza through a Hamas-controlled crossing, smashed furniture and windows at a shelter on Monday, a security source said.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum.
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Delvina da Costa complained of squalid conditions and a shortage of food in the refugee camp where she has lived for almost two years, but the prospect of returning to her old neighborhood in Dili fills her with dread.
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When 14 Jewish families moved into a Palestinian house in this sacred West Bank city &#151; the traditional burial site of the biblical patriarch Abraham &#151; Israel vowed to kick them out.
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The acrid scent of explosives and fire hovered inside the gutted church as Iraqi Christians baptized Savio Mar Georgis. By Muhannad Fala&#39;ah, Getty Images.