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Bethlehem wall built to stop terror, Israeli official says after papal visit
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAfter Pope Francis’s spontaneous prayer session at a section of the security barrier in Bethlehem this morning, an Israeli official tells Channel 2 that the pope “should remember that (the Bethlehem) wall was built to stop suicide terror.”
https://twitter.com/DanWilliams/status/470553441211645952
In an unscheduled stop during his Bethlehem visit, Francis had walked to the security barrier — in an area where it is wall, rather than the fencing that characterizes most of its route — and appeared to say some words of silent prayer.
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