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	Michel Sabbah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His Beatitude Michel Sabbah (born March 19, 1933 in Nazareth) is the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and Archbishop of Jerusalem.
		Sabbah began his priestly studies at the Latin Patriarchal Seminary of Beit Jala in October 1949 and was ordained a priest for the Latin patriarchate of Jerusalem in June 1955.
		Father Michel Sabbah was a parish priest for a few years before being sent to the University of St. Joseph in Beirut to study Arabic language and literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michel_Sabbah (390 words)

	Patriarch of Terror
		Michel Sabbah, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, has praised jihad, justified suicide bombing, and led marches at the behest of the late Yasser Arafat — leading some to question whose bidding the patriarch is doing.
		Sabbah, an Arab and a native of Nazareth, expressed his collaborationist sympathies most forcefully during a visit to a refugee camp near Bethlehem in 1999.
		It is the civilian population, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and as well as in Israel, that is the victim of this never-ending spiral of violence, of unjust military occupation and of the current political and economic crisis.
	frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=16525 (1439 words)

	Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ): Yves Teyssier D'Orfeuil, Michel Sabbah: Paix sur Jerusalem. Propos D'un Eveque Palestinien
		Yves Teyssier D'Orfeuil, Michel Sabbah: Paix sur Jerusalem.
		Sabbah is also a Catholic bishop and theologian who is obliged to be open and compassionate to the Israeli side and to reflect in depth on the mystery of Israel and Palestine in the biblical context.
		Sabbah thus considers it his bounden duty to defend the rights of all the Palestinians, arguing that their rights should be equal to those of the Israelis (p.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2501/is_3_26/ai_n10018145 (1419 words)

	CBC News: Catholic patriarch calls for dismantling of Israel's security wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Michel Sabbah, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, made the comments on Saturday after leading a procession from the city to Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ.
		Sabbah said the Palestinians should have the right to live freely in their own state, while also stressing that Israelis have the right to be safe.
		Sabbah made the comments leading the traditional Christmas Eve midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity, built over the grotto where Jesus is said to have been born.
	cbc.ca /storyview/MSN/world/national/2005/12/24/bethlehem-051224.html (537 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- AP Interview: Top Catholic in Holy Land says Israelis, Palestinians need new ...
		Sabbah, a Palestinian who was named partriarch in 1988, said he is not optimistic there will be a leadership change anytime soon, either on the Israeli or the Palestinian side.
		Sabbah was also critical of the region's religious leaders, who he said have failed to speak out for peace and tolerance, mainly because Muslim and Jewish religious figures are too entwined with politics.
		As the Easter holiday nears, Sabbah said he is focusing on how to deliver a message of hope during the traditional mass at the Old City's Church of the Holy Sepulcher on April 11.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040329-0528-mideast-patriarch.html (648 words)

	News about the "Security Wall's" effect on Catholics in the Holy Land, Dec. 2003
		Latin-rite Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem said in a Christmas homily that Israel's building of a huge barrier through the West Bank was a blow to peace efforts.
		Michel Sabbah, the Latin rite Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem, harshly criticized the Wall’s construction and Israel’s restrictive measures placed on travel to Bethlehem.
		Sabbah then denied the news, which appeared in some Israeli dailies, that the Latin rite Catholic Church had asked Israeli authorities to have Church properties fall inside the walls.
	www.mliles.com /catholicsholyland/newswall2003dec.shtml (846 words)

	USATODAY.com - Cleric: Bethlehem today is a 'prison' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Delivering his annual Christmas message, Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah spoke a day after the United Nations released a report on Bethlehem that described it as an isolated town with boarded up shops instead of a bustling cultural and spiritual center.
		Sabbah said he hoped leaders on both sides have the courage to seize the opportunity for peace presented by planned Palestinians elections on Jan. 9 to replace longtime leader Yasser Arafat, who died last month.
		Sabbah said that only an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories could bring peace.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-12-21-bethlehem_x.htm (457 words)

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		A Palestinian born in Nazareth on March 19, 1933, Michel Sabbah was ordained a Catholic priest in 1955.
		Sabbah expressed his collaborationist sympathies most forcefully during a visit to a refugee camp near Bethlehem in 1999.
		Sabbah, again at the aforementioned 1999 visit to a refugee camp, declared that Israel's "extracting our rights in all circumstances is a form of jihad" against the Palestinians.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1807 (1482 words)

	Interview with Michel Sabbah - Patriarch of Jerusalem
		Interview with the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah
		Dec. 23 issue — When Pope John Paul II appointed Michel Sabbah as the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem in 1988, it was the first time the Holy Land’s indigenous Roman Catholics were led by a fellow Palestinian.
		On a recent visit to Rome, Patriarch Sabbah spoke to NEWSWEEK’s Alessandra Borghese at the Vatican about where Christians stand in an atmosphere of conflict between Muslims and Jews.
	www.arabworldbooks.com /arab/michelSabbah.htm (750 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Patriarch chides Mid-East leaders
		The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, also appealed for an end to the bloodshed and for the Israelis to end the siege of Palestinian areas.
		Previously, Patriarch Michel has been seen as a supporter of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and a stern critic of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, but his annual Christmas message revealed a new impatience towards Mr Arafat.
		In his address, Patriarch Michel stressed his view that it was occupation that was the root cause of violence in the Middle East, and that the bloodshed would end if Israel pulled out of the occupied territories.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2587159.stm (531 words)

	The Middle East Peace Process: Patriarch Michel Sabbah's View - February 2002 Issue of St. Anthony Messenger Magazine ...
		Patriarch Sabbah's stand against occupation and in favor of nonviolent resistance has not won him many friends on either side of the issue.
		Sabbah then moved to the East African nation of Djibouti to teach Arabic and Islamic studies until 1973 when he began doctoral studies at the Sorbonne in France.
		Sabbah replaced Archbishop Giacomo Beltritti, one of a long line of Italian clerics to oversee the Latin-rite Church in Jerusalem.
	www.americancatholic.org /Messenger/Feb2002/Feature2.asp (3153 words)

	CNS STORY: In Christmas message, patriarch says peace is destiny of Holy Land
		JERUSALEM (CNS) -- Peace is the destiny of the Holy Land, Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem said in his annual Christmas message.
		In his message, Patriarch Sabbah called on Israel to stop military incursions into Palestinian territories, put a halt to the construction of the separation wall, and stop targeted attacks on alleged Palestinian terrorist leaders.
		In comments made to journalists, Patriarch Sabbah urged Israeli leaders to return to the negotiating table, saying that Palestinians were ready to talk.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/0406973.htm (485 words)

	Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem - Michel Sabbah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In his Easter Message in Jerusalem, 4 April 1999, Patriarch Michel Sabbah reminded his listeners that "The message of Easter is the message of the Risen Lord, of his triumph over sin and death.
		The Patriarch, a Nazareth Palestinian born as a refugee from Nazareth in Beit Jala, near Bethlethem, was at the camp to celebrate the end of the Summer Youth Camps in Palestine.
		Sabbah is really the 'patriarch', from the Greek words 'patris' (fatherland) from 'pater' (father) and 'arche', (power).
	www.newcreation.ch /HolyLand/patriarch.htm (1008 words)

	GBGM Feature
		His Beatitude Michel Sabbah has been the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem since 1987.
		The Latin Patriarch, Michel Sabbah, was born in Nazareth, in 1933.
		A man of very small statureâ”he is five feet tallâ”the patriarch possesses a great moral strength that he uses in his mission to free the people held hostage by this national conflict.
	gbgm-umc.org /global_news/full_article.cfm?articleid=1318 (1394 words)

	Dhimmi Watch: Fitzgerald: IslamoChristians and Bethlehem
		It was the act of dhimmis, of course, behaving in the same desperate-for-Muslim-acceptance-and-approval manner that was displayed by Michel Aflaq, that Damascene Christian, when he co-founded the political movement of Ba'athism.
		Michel Sabbah, the same Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem,who declared in April of 2002 that the 200 clearly armed Palestinians who seized the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem were not armed and were willingly accepted into the church & were given asylum, continues to wield any crediblity - anywhere.
		Michel Sabbah was the first ever Arabic Latin Patriarch, a Vatican experiment that many people in Rome now regard as an utter failure.
	www.jihadwatch.org /dhimmiwatch/archives/010061.php (4436 words)

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		His Beatitude Michel Sabbah, who was named the Latin (Roman Catholic) Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1988, met with Archbishop Barsamian and the others during a luncheon at the New York Catholic Center on Thursday, July 31, 2003.
		A Palestinian, Patriarch Sabbah was appointed to his post by Pope John Paul II in January 1988.
		Michel Sabbah (center), the Latin (Roman Catholic) Patriarch of Jerusalem, meets with Archbishop Barsamian (right), Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, and Bishop Manuel Batakian (left), Apostolic Exarch of Armenian Catholics in the United States, during a luncheon in New York City on Wednesday, July 30, 2003.
	www.armenianchurch.org /news/index3.php?newsid=266&selmonth=7&selyear (281 words)

	The Bishops and the Suicide Bomber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The purpose of their visit was to express solidarity with the Church of the Holy Land, and to reiterate grave concerns over the security measures taken by Israel in the face of a prolonged terrorist war.
		Michel Sabbah and the Catholic Bishops have given us a simplistic and all-too-European scenario in which the Jewish State is stealing land and preventing decent folk from work and worship.
		Michel Sabbah is a long-terrorist supporter and Wilton Gregory is a member of the mushy left.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1063559/posts (1390 words)

	Episcopal News Service
		Supporters of Sabbah have denounced any move that could isolate him from a portion of the Catholic community.
		'I am a strong supporter of Michel Sabbah and [the plan] is an attempt to undermine the authority of the Latin Patriarch,' the Rev. Don Moore of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Jerusalem told ENI.
		'Sabbah has been a great advocate of peace, reconciliation, of love between the peoples in the land,' he contended.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /3577_19293_ENG_HTM.htm (327 words)

	Church in Holy Land Helped by $120,000 Gift from Knights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		His Beatitude Michel Sabbah, Latin Patriarch, addresses Knights at convention.
		At the organization's 121st annual meeting in Washington, Aug. 5, Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson presented His Beatitude Michel Sabbah, the leader of Latin-rite Catholics in the Holy Land, with a check for $120,000.
		At that time His Beatitude Sabbah was presented with a check for $100,000, representing the first proceeds from the Pacem in Terris Fund.
	www.kofc.org /news/releases/detail.cfm?id=6 (330 words)

	Links for Learners: The Middle East Peace Process: Patriarch Michel Sabbah's View - February 2002 Issue of St. Anthony ...
		Patriarch Michel Sabbah, the focus of this month's article, sees his role as one who brings peace to the Middle East by prayerfully telling the truth.
		The U. Catholic Bishops echo this theme in their November 2000 statement "Returning to the Path of Peace in the Middle East." "Muslims, Jews and Christians, Palestinians and Israelis cannot separate themselves into walled enclaves; they must find ways to live together, as equals and in dignity." Nor can reconciliation be imposed.
		Pax Christi International, of which Patriarch Sabbah is president, works with the United Nations and other world and national groups to bring about peace in troubled areas around the globe.
	www.americancatholic.org /messenger/feb2002/links_for_learners.asp (1148 words)

	EAPPI Report: Text from Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah
		Text of Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah's address during the EAPPI's report on the Palestinian Election Process to the Jerusalem Heads of Churches and guests, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
		Text of the comments delivered by Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah January 10th at a meeting organized by the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI).
		Patriarch Sabbah began the evening by introducing that the 13 heads of Churches were all represented: three Patriarchs and 10 Archbishops, all residing in Jerusalem, five Orthodox, six Catholic, and two Protestants.
	www.eappi.org /eappi.nsf/index/rep-ms-05011001.html (642 words)

	Archbishop Donoghue
		It is our great, and humbling honor to have with us tonight, His beatitude Michel Sabbah, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
		Patriarch Sabbah brings to us a voice that is suffused with the strength of personal heroism.
		Now, I am sure he would quickly attribute what we perceive as courage, to the grace of his ordination, and to the strength of the Holy Spirit, which indwells our church, and which we all share.
	www.archatl.com /archbishops/donoghue/ab-0316.html (927 words)

	Dhimmi Watch: Patriarch of Terror
		He continued that any position to be made by Hanna as from now represents just his personal position and not necessarily the Orthodox church which voices its sympathy with the victims of terrorism and violence...
		At some point he, and Georgetown, have to part ways, for the sake of Georgetown's reputation, and continued support from alumni) was a "Christian." The gun-running icon-stealing Hilarion Cappucci was, in name, a Melkite Catholic; he was, in his essence, a PLO supporter.
		You are right Mike, Michel Sabbah is stuck in the Dhimmi mind set, which in many ways is the same as the "slave" mindset.
	www.jihadwatch.org /dhimmiwatch/archives/004531.php (2095 words)

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		Subj: Patriarch Sabbah of Jerusalem, One City,Two Flags,Two Capitals AT THE ADC 14th National Convention "ORGANIZING IN POWER" in Washington DC June 12-15 Comments (For distribution to the Mass Media) Help us, please, (this could also help you to report or comment to your Organization, Newsletters, News Papers, Magazines, mailing lists etc) From Al-Bushra/ Fr.
		Labib Kobti htttp://www.al-bushra.org 1- Patriarch Michel Sabbah, head of the Roman Catholic Church in Jerusalem came for one day visit to Washington on the invitation of the President of ADC Hala Maksoud, so as to speak in the Capital of the USA, Washington D.C at the ADC 14th NATIONAL CONVENTION.
		Cooperations between Muslims and Christians in the Middle East at the Reiligiopus and civil levels are as wonderful as ever assured Patriarch Michel Sabbah.
	www.christusrex.org /www2/news-old/4-97/labib6-15 (1361 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		AMMAN, Jordan, JULY 28, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The Latin-rite patriarch of Jerusalem emphasized the importance of educating and forming Christians in the Mideast, particularly in the Holy Land, to help them deal with their highly complex environment.
		Patriarch Michel Sabbah made that point at the recent chapter of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, held in Amman.
		Instead, among some Christians there is "perplexity about how to behave" and some do so as citizens "hiding their own feelings in the face of certain incidents," he said.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57508 (559 words)

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