{"id":3910,"date":"2006-12-18T00:13:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T00:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/12\/follow-the-pilgrimage.html"},"modified":"2006-12-18T00:13:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T00:13:14","slug":"follow-the-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/12\/follow-the-pilgrimage.html","title":{"rendered":"Follow the pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Later this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O&#8217;Connor; the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams; Primate of the Armenian Church of Great Britain Bishop Nathan Hovhannisian and the Free Churches Moderator, the Reverend David Coffey are undertaking an Advent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcdow.org.uk\/holyland\/\">There will some sort of online journal\/blog of their trip, beginning on the 20th. <\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Aside from everything else, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?c=JPArticle&amp;cid=1164881889516&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">this will make the trip even more interesting:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The chief pastor of the Anglican community in Israel, Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal, is facing mushrooming allegations of nepotism and graft which have clouded the end of his tenure in office, church officials said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The corruption charges, the subject of a four-month internal church committee investigation, have prompted long-time opponents of the bishop to call for his immediate resignation. <\/p>\n<p>The internal church inquiry committee examined the allegations. It concluded that El-Assal arranged to have a tender for the insurance policy of employees of the church&#8217;s two schools here issued to a company that promised to give half the commission to his son-in-law. <\/p>\n<p>The 35-page report, which was obtained by <em>The Jerusalem Post<\/em>, states that the bishop&#8217;s actions constituted a &quot;dramatic combination&quot; of nepotism and violation of trust. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later this week&#8230; The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O&#8217;Connor; the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams; Primate of the Armenian Church of Great Britain Bishop Nathan Hovhannisian and the Free Churches Moderator, the Reverend David Coffey are undertaking an Advent pilgrimage to the Holy Land. 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