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Article: CHRISTIAN PRESENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
- Article from:
- International Review of Mission
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
- Author:
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PETER E. MAKARI [*]
At the close of the second millennium since the birth of our Lord, much attention around the world is focussed on the Middle East, and particularly on the historic land of Jesus Christ's life and resurrection, the land of Palestine and Israel. Pilgrims have for centuries come to the so-called "Holy Land" to visit the places where the events of the scriptures took place. The biblical lands are indeed special. They offer the Christian visitor a spiritual journey endowed with many meanings and a sense of immediate connectivity with our faith history. It is to this context that so many have come and this that so many have sought.
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