Nuseibeh - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:59:10 +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 Nuseibeh - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Why Muslims hold the key to the Holy Sepulchre https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/08/03/why-muslims-hold-the-key-to-the-holy-sepulchre/ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:30:00 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=30902 Every morning and night, in a ritual dating back hundreds of years, two Muslim families control the opening and closing of the place in Jerusalem where Jesus rose from the dead. The Joudeh and Nuseibeh families, one generation after another, got the job of holding the keys and opening the door to Christianity's most sacred Read more

Why Muslims hold the key to the Holy Sepulchre... Read more]]> Every morning and night, in a ritual dating back hundreds of years, two Muslim families control the opening and closing of the place in Jerusalem where Jesus rose from the dead.

The Joudeh and Nuseibeh families, one generation after another, got the job of holding the keys and opening the door to Christianity's most sacred site because the Christians in charge of it could not get on together.

"The Churches wouldn't go along with each other, so the key was taken away from the dominant Church and entrusted to a neutral monotheistic faith that embraces the Christ as a prophet — Islam" confesses Father Samuel Aghoyan, Armenian Superior of the Holy Sepulchre.

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