The official conversion of Italy's ambassador was made on the eve of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, which began on November 16 in Saudi Arabia.

November 26, 2002, Yahoo News, By Luke Baker

The Garden Tomb Association, based in Britain, has now reduced staffing, shortened the opening hours and suspended the open-air Sunday morning service for the winter months

Assist News Service, Nov 23, 2001

The Cardinal who is in Israel until Thursday to "promote dialogue between Jews and Christians," told officials that the mosque "might generate problems in the state of Israel."

Catholic News, November 23, 2001

Yad Le'Achim, an organization sponsored by the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, is going to court to halt construction of a congregational center for a growing church in southern Israel.

By LaTonya Taylor, Christianity Today, Nov 15, 2001

Israel has said it has ordered the halt to the construction of a mosque at a site near the Christian Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, a project that has angered the Vatican.

CNN, November 15, 2001

"Do not leave us Christians of the Holy Land alone," implored Fr Vicenzo Ianniello, secretary of the Catholic Custody of the Holy Land


Catholic News, Nov 13, 2001

The extraordinary story of Rita Younes, Director of Children's Programming for SAT-7 in which she tells how growing up the Lebanon civil war transformed her life and gave her a deep love for the children of the Arab World

By Dan Wooding, Assist Ministries

The BBC is also openning a new theological education center in Nazareth in cooperation and in conduction with the area churches.

Special for Come and See

A Palestinian American explains what is causing that "one-day Israeli tourism guides will tell their hapless visitors to Jerusalem and Bethlehem that Bethlehem was destroyed by the Arab World.
And..They'll probably get away with that, too"

By Ray Hanania, for Middle East News Online