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Article: Christians apologize for bloody Crusade: Atonement comes 900 years after.(World)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 16, 1999
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Hundreds of Christians walked atop the walls of Jerusalem's Old City and apologized to Muslims and Jews yesterday on the 900th anniversary of the Crusaders' bloody pillage of the city.
The "Pilgrimage of Apology" by citizens from the London area was the culmination of a three-year Reconciliation Walk in which approximately 2,500 volunteers from more than 25 nations, hoping to erase centuries of bloodshed with an apology and a handshake, walked in turns along the path Crusaders traveled through Western and Central Europe, the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East.
"It's unfortunate that we had not appreciated this long ago," said John E. Lynch, professor ...