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...throne room of Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox Patriarch in the Old City's Christian Quarter is at the heart of a maze of tunnels, sandstone stairways, narrow passages and courtyards bursting with almond blossom. Each night at 10 p.m., in a practice that dates back centuries, the priests of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher lock themselves into their ancient warren, shutting out the iniquitous world beyond their walls. Lately, though, they've concluded the biggest threat lies within - Patriarch Eirinaios I, who's at the center of a labyrinthine religious and legal scandal involving the alleged lease of Church...
...Eirinaios blames the alleged Old City property deal on Nikolaos Papadimas, 32, who was appointed as a Patriarchate accountant in 2002. According to a Greek government report obtained by Time, Eirinaios gave Papadimas several powers of attorney to administer the lease of a property in Jerusalem. Eirinaios told Greek investigators he believes Papadimas altered the documents "to afford himself greater powers and to contract long-term leases," the report says. Eirinaios denies knowledge of Papadimas' dealings, and issued a statement in March renouncing the powers of attorney he gave his former adviser. On March 27, Papadimas - speaking from an undisclosed...
...sale of their patrimony to the Israeli enemy. "The Greek Orthodox Church is led by foreigners," says Dimitri Diliani, a Palestinian Orthodox Christian leading the campaign against Eirinaios. "They make personal profit and don't work in the best interests of the Christian community." This week, senior clerics in Jerusalem are expected to elect a provisional leader to administer the Patriarchate until elections for a new Orthodox prelate are held. Even if Eirinaios fights to keep his job, the embattled Patriarch is likely to remain under pressure from his own congregation. Israeli security officials tell Time there is another secret...
Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky was a prominent member of Ariel Sharon's Cabinet until May 2, when he quit to protest the Israeli Prime Minister's plan to pull out of settlements in the Gaza Strip. Now a fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem think tank, Sharansky talked to TIME'S Jerusalem bureau chief, Matt Rees, about terrorism, human rights and Sharon...
...Jerusalem is not theirs ... it is an open town that anybody can visit." NAJIB RAZAK, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, after former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was turned away at the Israel-Jordan border on his way to Jerusalem...