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    ChristianToday, UK
    Jan 3 2007

    Documentary on UK Church Leaders' Pilgrimage to be Screened

    A television documentary following UK church leaders on a recent
    pre-Christmas 'pilgrimage of peace' to the Holy Land is to be
    screened this forthcoming Sunday night on ITV1.

    by Gretta Curtis
    Posted: Wednesday, January 3, 2007, 8:57 (GMT)

    A television documentary following UK church leaders on a recent
    pre-Christmas 'pilgrimage of peace' to the Holy Land is to be
    screened this forthcoming Sunday night on ITV1.

    The one-hour programme is a co-production by Feed the Minds and Salt
    Pictures.

    Bethlehem: No Room for Peace follows the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr
    Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Westminster, His Eminence Cardinal
    Murphy-O'Connor, the Rev David Coffey, Moderator of the Free
    Churches, and Bishop Nathan Hovhannisian, Primate of the Armenian
    Church of Great Britain as they journey through the Holy Land in the
    days before Christmas 2006.

    Following the three-day pilgrimage, Archbishop Williams has strongly
    criticised the government's "shortsighted" and "ignorant" policy in
    Iraq.

    Writing in The Times, the Archbishop accused Tony Blair and the US of
    endangering the lives and futures of thousands of Christians in the
    Middle East who are stigmatised by their countrymen as supporters of
    the "crusading West".

    He added that one prediction that was systematically ignored was that
    Western military action would put the whole of the Middle East's
    Christian population at risk.

    Dr Williams went on to condemn the government for failing to devise a
    strategy to help Christians in the Middle East, where their numbers
    are in dramatic decline.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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