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                    [Title] => Palestinian eviction case spotlights Jerusalem settler push
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Ahmad Sub-Laban's family has lived for decades under threat of eviction from their home overlooking the gold-topped Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-23 11:41:34 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1436514 [AuthorName] => Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1534247 [Title] => Still walking along the path of Jesus in the Holy Land [Summary] =>

DATELINE: Old City, Jerusalem. We are still walking along the path of our Lord, and we find ourselves here entering the Lion's Gate to the Old City. Some sixty meters to our right, we behold this beautiful 12th century crusader church, known as the CHURCH OF SAINT ANNE, in honor of Hannah the mother of the Virgin Mary. It is built immediately next to the biblically famous Bethesda Pool, where Jesus cured a paralytic and made him walk on Sabbath Day.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-18 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136164 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148714 [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1533948 [Title] => Exploring the Holy Land, to celebrate Christmas in Israel [Summary] =>

DATELINE: ISRAEL.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-17 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136164 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148714 [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1533578 [Title] => In the Holy Land, walking along the paths of the Lord Jesus [Summary] =>

Dateline: Israel, From Jordan and Egypt. It is cold winter here, with 8 to 12 degrees Celsius, and it was drizzling there in the Ben Gurion Airport when we landed some hours ago.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-16 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136164 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148714 [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1505571 [Title] => Palestinians, Israeli forces clash amid holy site tensions [Summary] =>

Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli troops across the West Bank on yesterday, while three tourists were lightly wounded by Palestinian stone throwers as tensions remained high following days of violence at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-29 17:14:14 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1410036 [Title] => Islamic leader urges Muslims to visit Jerusalem holy site [Summary] =>

The head of the world's largest Islamic organization on yesterday paid a rare visit to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, urging Muslims to follow suit to strengthen Palestinian claims to the holy site.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-06 04:13:21 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1666608 [AuthorName] => Rawhi Razim [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1387564 [Title] => Jerusalem on edge in row over contested shrine [Summary] =>

This combustible city at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been edging toward a new conflagration, with politicians on both sides stoking religious fervor over an ancient Jerusalem shrine sacred to Muslims and Jews.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-03 07:02:09 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1436521 [AuthorName] => Karin Laub and Tia Goldenberg [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1322231 [Title] => Syria opens presidential campaign as war rages on [Summary] =>

On billboards and in posters taped to car windows, new portraits of President Bashar Assad filled the streets of Damascus on yesterday as Syria officially opened its presidential campaign despite a crippling civil war that has devastated the country and left large chunks of territory outside of government control.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-12 06:41:33 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1112583 [AuthorName] => Albert Aji [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1281707 [Title] => Israel seeks to save ancient sites from earthquake [Summary] =>

With Israel situated in one of the world's earthquake-prone areas, officials are taking action to protect the Holy Land's most important ancient treasures so they don't come tumbling down.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-22 04:45:04 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1243240 [AuthorName] => Daniel Estrin [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 945919 [Title] => Travel Chronicles – Part 3 [Summary] =>

We spent four days in beautiful sun-kissed Greece, toured the Acropolis and Delphi ruins and visited the Delphi Museum with our second tour guide Electra Toya from the Greek Ministry of Culture who guided us through Delphi so knowledgeably and patiently. We also spent about half a day in the quaint island of Hydra where no cars or motorcycles are allowed and the locals and tourists alike still travel only on bicycles, mules and donkeys or taxi boats.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133766 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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