Julia Frankel

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David Catalunya, a Valencian musician and musicologist, displays an 11th-century organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world. It was played for the first time in 800 years after restoration, in St. Savior's Monastery in Jerusalem's Old City Sept. 9. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

The oldest pipe organ in the Christian world sounds after 800 years of silence

Researchers hope to finish restoring the entire instrument and then create copies to be placed in churches across Europe and the world so its music is accessible to all.

Leaders of Holy Land churches condemn Israeli settler violence during a West Bank visit

Top church leaders in the Holy Land asserted Monday that Israeli authorities "facilitate and enable" the presence of Israeli settlers who have intensified attacks in recent weeks on the only entirely Christian Palestinian village remaining in the occupied West Bank.

 

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