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The synod's closing document deplored both Palestinian suffering as a consequence of the "Israeli occupation" and the "suffering and insecurity in which Israelis live."
U.S. Bishop Says Jews Have No 'Exclusive Right' To Israel Josh Fleet 2010
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The synod's closing document deplored both Palestinian suffering as a consequence of the "Israeli occupation" and the "suffering and insecurity in which Israelis live."
U.S. Bishop Says Jews Have No 'Exclusive Right' To Israel Josh Fleet 2010
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Even the Pope's visit to Turkey had a Jewish angle; I thought the papal synod's claim that Christians living in the Middle East are persecuted as a result of "Christian fundamentalist theologies" that "use sacred scripture to justify Israel's occupation of Palestine" reeked ever so faintly of the well-worn Catholic bigots 'refrain: "blame the Jews."
Michele Somerville: Many Are 'Chosen People' -- And a Few Even Know What It Means 2010
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The synod responded by stripping him of his bishopric and his clergyman's licence, but Kunonga laid claim to the cathedral and ignored the synod's appointment of Bishop Bakare as his replacement.
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Three weeks ago, a high court judge declared that Kunonga, a militant supporter of President Robert Mugabe, had no legal rights to be in the cathedral following the synod's appointment of Bakare.
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The Rev. Gerald Kieschnick, the synod's current president, has pushed church marketing over the Lutherans 'historic confession of faith by repeatedly telling the laity, "This is not your grandfather's church."
Radio Silence 2008
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But the synod's 55 final recommendations to the pope (he will likely approve most of them in a document of his own next year), while filled with lovely language about better homilies, could have used a greater focus on small-group bible studies outside the liturgy.
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Church attendance, divorce, celibacy and abortion rights are all expected to feature on the synod's agenda.
The pelvicists are at it again Mike L 2005
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Church attendance, divorce, celibacy and abortion rights are all expected to feature on the synod's agenda.
Archive 2005-10-01 Mike L 2005
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Reflecting the diversity of the continent's religious problems, the pontiff will present the synod's findings in Cameroon to the
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