Shalom dear friends from the president’s residence in Jerusalem it gives me great pleasure to send greetings to the entire Christian world and to the thousands of pilgrims or in these very moments celebrating the Festival of Sukkot with us here in the holy city you are gathered here dear friends for
This sacred pilgrimage from all of corners of the earth welcomed by the International Christian Embassy of Jerusalem and its president my good friend Dr Jorgen Bula you are here touching the Earth of Jerusalem its fraternal love of the Jewish people and in Allegiance with the vision of a world
In which we all share common humanity and common hope and pray together from my dwelling space shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations in fact our Jewish tradition views this season during the Harvest Festival as a time of universality when all peoples reach for divine abundance and blessing
The book of zacharya Zakaria which is read in synagogues around the world on Sukkot the scribes in gathering of nations in Jerusalem to celebrate this great Festival here now dear friends you are living out this vision filling our streets with fraternal love and with faith that you bring from 100
Countries languages and cultures so today we all speak the same language the language of Faith the language of blessing the language of Peace language of love and allow me to state in this context that the state of Israel will always preserve freedom of religion and worship and seize you as welcome guests
And brothers and sisters of ours we will insist on protecting all of the religious communities and Safeguard every side religious leader and human being as such this commitment goes in the very heart of who we are as a Jewish and Democratic State and it is not something that we will ever compromise
On so dear friends as We Gather here together in the city sacred to our soul I would like to offer a special prayer not only for Christian communities in the Holy Land but for Christian communities throughout the Middle East and the World At Large a prayer of Peace fraternity and Brotherhood and
Sisterhood thank you my friends and welcome to yerushalayim
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