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74. Palm Sunday 2005



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A candleholder during the Latin Catholic Palm Sunday Mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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A member of the Muslim family which, since Ottoman times, has been entrusted with the keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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A woman prays at the concrete slab in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre where tradition holds that the body of Jesus was anointed before being entombed.

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Armenian priests arrive at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on western Palm Sunday.

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Coptic Christians in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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Each scout troop had a distinctive uniform.

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Older scouts also participated in the procession.

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One of the officials marching in the procession.

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Soldiers on guard during the Palm Sunday procession. One seems particularly amused by a child.

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Some Jewish visitors to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday.

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Some more of the girl scouts marching in the procession.

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The choir sings during the Latin Catholic Palm Sunday Mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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The courtyard outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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The procession included thousands of people, who walked from Bethphage over the Mount of Olives, past the Garden of Gethsemane and down into the Kidron Valley, and then up through the Lion's Gate into the Old City.

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The procession was full of Palestinian Scout troops.

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There were many troops of young boys and girls.

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View of the "Separation Wall" looking south from the road that goes from Bethphage up and over the Mount of Olives.