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Prelates Arrive in Israel to Confer with Eshkol on Holy Places

August 25, 1967
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Two prelates acting as emissaries of the World Council of Churches, which had just closed its central committee meeting at Crete, came here today to urge Prime Minister Levi Eshkol against Israel’s placement of the administration of the Christian holy places in Jerusalem under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church.

The bishops said the Council favored the objective of having Israel retain for herself full control over the Jerusalem holy sites. The prelates are Bishop Stephens, of India, and Bishop Maris, of the Netherlands.

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