Church Leaders Arrive in Bethlehem for Annual Pilgrimage
(09 Jan 09 - RV) Bishops and other Church leaders are arriving in Bethlehem today,
for an annual pilgrimage to the Holy Land and a conference in support of the region’s
Christian community. The Co-ordination Group of Bishops Conferences in Support of
the Church in the Holy Land was set up in Jerusalem at the request of the Holy See
in 1998, and its aim is to encourage pilgrimages to the land where Christ lived and
died. One of the participants is Birmingham Auxiliary Bishop William Kenney. He says
Christians feel caught in the middle of the ongoing violence.