King David - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:44:54 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg King David - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Vatican digs illegal tunnel to exhume King David's DNA https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/04/15/tunnel-under-church-of-the-dormition/ Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:44:54 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=135383 Rabbi Daniel Asor of the Yanar Institute claims that a tunnel has been built under the Church of the Dormition to allow its members to exhume the remains of King David. Asor has also alleged that the church is acting on instructions from the Vatican, which he says has a plan to collect DNA samples Read more

Vatican digs illegal tunnel to exhume King David's DNA... Read more]]> Rabbi Daniel Asor of the Yanar Institute claims that a tunnel has been built under the Church of the Dormition to allow its members to exhume the remains of King David.

Asor has also alleged that the church is acting on instructions from the Vatican, which he says has a plan to collect DNA samples from King David's bones.

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Vatican digs illegal tunnel to exhume King David's DNA]]> 135383 Orthodox Jews protest against Pope's visit to Jerusalem site https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/05/16/orthodox-jews-protest-popes-visit-jerusalem-site/ Thu, 15 May 2014 19:09:05 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=57812 Hundreds of Orthodox Jews have protested against the visit of Pope Francis to a Jerusalem holy site later this month. The Pope is scheduled to celebrate Mass in the Cenacle, believed to be the site of the Last Supper, during his visit to the Holy Land from May 24-26. The site is also held by Read more

Orthodox Jews protest against Pope's visit to Jerusalem site... Read more]]> Hundreds of Orthodox Jews have protested against the visit of Pope Francis to a Jerusalem holy site later this month.

The Pope is scheduled to celebrate Mass in the Cenacle, believed to be the site of the Last Supper, during his visit to the Holy Land from May 24-26.

The site is also held by Jews to be the tomb of King David.

Some Orthodox Jews fear the Pope's visit to the Cenacle will lead to the Israeli government turning portions of the site over to the Vatican.

"When 'the crusaders' come here making the sign of the cross and all kinds of rituals, this place will become idolatrous for us, and we will not have the right to pray there any more," ultra-Orthodox Jewish protester Yitzhak Batzon told AFP.

The protest was on May 12.

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