OTTAWA (CCN) -- While visiting the Holy Land, the President and the General Secretary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) met with the newly elected president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting happened within days after Abbas' Jan. 9 election win.
While touring Bethlehem Jan. 11, CCCB President Archbishop Brendan O'Brien told the Catholic News Service (CNS) that he sensed that Palestinians seemed to have more hope.
"If people would have more opportunity for work, that would certainly help, but the Palestinian situation as occupied people is always in the background, so even if the economic situation would be good, …
