Church leaders in Jerusalem protest taxes on church properties
June 24, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: The Christian leaders of Jerusalem have joined in a public protest of the city’s new bid to tax church properties, saying that the policy “undermines the sacred character of Jerusalem and jeopardizes the Church’s ability to carry out her ministry in this land on behalf of its communities and churches around the world.”
The policy violates an agreement that has stood for centuries, in which the city has preserved the autonomy of Christian institutions, the prelates said.
The protest was signed by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem; Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III; Armenian Apostolic Patriarch Nourhan Manougian; Brother Francis Patton, the Franciscan Custos of the Holy Land; Lutheran Evangelical Bishop Ibrahim Sani Azar; and Msgr. Georges Dankaye of the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
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