“Our devotees must rediscover that being Christians in the Holy Land is a call. So we must not fall into the temptation, induced by our being few, to live segregated into a religious and cultural ghetto. Let’s get out of the ghetto.”

— William Hanna Shomali

‘Get out of the ghetto,’ new auxiliary bishop of Jerusalem urges Christians https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/19813/get-out-of-the-ghetto-new-auxiliary-bishop-of-jerusalem-urges-christians (May 27, 2010)

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auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem 1950

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