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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In the town where Christians believe Christ was born, the Christians are leaving. Four years of violence, an economic free fall and the Israeli separation barrier
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Thousands of Ethiopian Jews who left their native villages to relocate to Israel have been camping for months or even years in the capital, waiting in vain to get to the Promised land.
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More than 1,000 Palestinian pilgrims stranded in Egypt protest after they are moved to temporary camps.
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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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Palestinians expressed sorrow and anxiety at the thought of a future without Yasser Arafat, wondering if his absence from the Palestinian territories would bring a bloody
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - About 150 Palestinian pilgrims returning from Mecca entered the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after a border-crossing dispute left about 2,000 of them stranded in Egypt for days, witnesses said.
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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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Hundreds of terrified Gazans fleeing Hamas rule were trapped at a main crossing with Israel on Tuesday, hoping to gain permission to pass through Israeli territory to sanctuary in the West Bank.
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Hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims stranded in Egypt after returning from Mecca cross back into the Gaza Strip.
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The Rev. Joseph Dantica fled to the United States nearly a month ago, seeking asylum after gangs in his neighborhood ransacked his church and threatened to kill him.
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Relatives of Islamic fighters holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon began leaving the besieged area Friday, according to a Muslim clergyman mediating between the militants and the army.
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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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Gaza's tiny Christian community is keeping a low profile this Christmas, traumatized by the killing of a prominent activist in the wake of Hamas' takeover of the coastal territory.
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A Palestinian mayor called Monday for the end of pilgrimages by Jewish groups to a holy site in his West Bank village after Muslim graves were desecrated there last week.
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Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are fleeing the chaos of their homeland only to find themselves unwelcome guests in other Arab countries, threatening a major new refugee crisis in the Middle East.