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The Catholic Church has signed its first treaty with Palestine, making official its de facto recognition of the state. Israel reiterated that it regretted the decision.
Enough said.
The Vatican signed a treaty with the “State of Palestine” on Friday, saying it hoped its legal recognition of the state would help stimulate peace with Israel and that the treaty itself would serve as a model for other Mideast countries.
Vatican Foreign Minister Paul Gallagher and his Palestinian counterpart, Riad al-Malki, signed the treaty at a ceremony inside the Vatican.
Israel expressed disappointment when the Vatican announced last month that it had reached final agreement with the “State of Palestine” on the treaty regulating the life of the Catholic Church in the Palestinian territories.
It repeated that regret in a Foreign Ministry statement Friday, saying the move hurt peace prospects and would discourage the Palestinians from returning to direct negotiations. It warned that it would study the agreement “and its implications for future cooperation between Israel and the Vatican.”
Gallagher, though, said he hoped the Vatican’s recognition “may in some way be a stimulus to bringing a definitive end to the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which continues to cause suffering for both parties.”
He said that he hoped the treaty could serve as a model for the church in other Mideast countries, where Christians are a minority and often persecuted.
The Vatican had welcomed the decision by the U.N. General Assembly in 2012 to recognize a Palestinian state and had referred to the Palestine state since. But the treaty marked its first legal recognition of the Palestinian territory as a state.
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I didn’t know the Vatican was God! Shocker! It’s not.
Vatican and New Pope (old pope too aparrently…. seriously, check out some of the youtube testimonials.) need to get right with God A.K.A. Jesus Christ because the Bottom line is that any institution, organization, sporting event, charity event, fundraising event, no matter how well intended are for NOTHING if you don’t know how to talk to him.
Fear Kills. Stop being a Pansy. There is a reason a Christian is Stronger and HAPPY! Seriously. It is very difficult but you get to know stuff. It is way more descriptive than any movie or comic book. That said I think the Only image that should have ever been preserved was the Image Of CHRIST. JESUS CHRIST! THAT GUY WHO SAVED US!
Good Job Pope and Rest of the World. You have all been found Guilty. This is what it means to be a sinner. You are all Guilty.
That guy with the long hair was not Jesus Christ, Everybody knows it but nobody cares. And the messed up part is that we don’t kill, but you want to cut our heads off.
The war is Over, God Wins.