Israel - In Jerusalem, Jews, Christians and Muslims united in prayer

The three monotheistic faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, against the coronavirus in a common prayer in Jerusalem, the three times holy city. The invocation was written by the two chief rabbis of Israel - the Sephardic Yitzhak Yosef and the Ashkenazi David Lau - in light of the "terrible world situation" and saw the convinced adhesion of the heads of the Christian Churches in the Holy Land - the Patriarch Greek Orthodox Theophilos III, the Latin Patriarch Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa - of the Imams Gamal el Ubra and Agel Al-Atrash and of the Druze spiritual leader Mowafaq Tarif. At 3 pm (local time), in a ceremony broadcast live around the world, the religious found themselves in the "neutral" place of the King David hotel to ask together - but according to today's health rules - "to all citizens the world to join forces and lead a joint prayer for health and unity. " Recalling Psalm 121, the religious then invoked the Lord not to abandon their children. "In these turbulent days, we continue to hear - they added referring also to racism and anti-Semitism - growing voices against entire communities. This terrible new reality has affected all humanity without distinction of religion, gender or race". Archbishop Pizzaballa stressed that "all over the world we suffer from coronavirus and we must pray. Especially here, because Jerusalem is the city of all the peoples who pray here and it is the city that represents all peoples, since this Illness knows no bounds. We are all united to pray to the One for mercy on us. "