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"textContent": "(RNS) — Even the Trump administration's ambassador called barring the Catholic leaders from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday 'difficult to understand.'",
"title": "Israel’s defense for closing Holy Week sites in Jerusalem takes a new twist"
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