Six years later he was awarded the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem: Knight Commander with star.

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Today people are free to pray at the western wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, al-Aqsa mosque, or anywhere else they decide.

ECONOMIST: Municipal unrest

He is due to celebrate mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, on the site where Jesus is said to have been crucified, buried and resurrected.

BBC: Pope in Nazareth

There is genuine fear that the holiest sites of Christianity, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, will become mere museums.

ECONOMIST: Retired hurt

The Muslim overlords respected the Holy Sepulchre the Christians' most sacred shrine while adopting many Jewish beliefs about the Rock, about half a mile to the east, where the Jewish temple had once stood.

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