The Israeli army apologized after soldiers barred the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem from entering a Palestinian village near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The apology came one day after Michel Sabbah was not allowed into the village of Ein Arik, where he was to say Mass at a church.
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