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June 28, 2012
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UNESCO grants endangered status to Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity.
Update: UNESCO approved the Church of the Nativity as an endangered World Heritage site today in a 13-6 secret vote that has been decried for its political overtones.
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UNESCO is expected to decide this weekend whether Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity will be granted protected status as an endangered World Heritage site.
The Palestinian Authority has rushed a UNESCO vote by applying for endangered status for the Bethlehem church. Most observers regard the application as a bid for international recognition; the Palestinians failed in their statehood bid before the United Nations last year, but did succeed in gaining status as a UNESCO member state.
The three Christian denominations that serve as the church's caretakers have misgivings about the idea, while UNESCO investigators seem unconvinced that the Church of the Nativity is truly endangered, according to the AP.
CT's past coverage of Bethlehem can be found here.
Comments
Can someone explain what UNESCO has to do with declaring any building within a country's borders a world heritage site with protected status and especially when the people owning the building aren't asking for it. There are so many people starving, not being educated, being burned alived inside of churches, etc. why is UNESCO given any right to have a concern about a building. Isn't UNESCO or the U.N. supposed to be attending to human rights to have food, be educated, right to life, etc. and stopping radical Muslims like the Palestinians carrying out their wars against people who don't agree with them. When did the U.N. become concerned with buildings within a democractic country and not people in non democractic countries. No wonder the killing continues when the U.N. concerns it's mission of helping people not as important as protecting buildings. Also doesn't the U.N. know that once a Muslim has anything to do with a Christian church or another religion's building that Islam than considers that building Muslim.All a Muslim has to do is walk in a non Islam worship site, say a prayer there or congregate there for a meeting and it is considered a Muslim site.
Posted By: Original Anna | July 2, 2012 9:35 PM
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