Will ‘Delusional’ U.N. Recognize Christian Sites?
By WND. There’s an international dilemma developing for UNESCO, criticized as the ”delusional” U.N. agency that designated Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, considered the site of Jewish temples that existed more than 2,000 years before Muhammad, as “Islamic.”
UNESCO is being asked to recognize sites that are significant to the Christian faith. . .
UNESCO also has ascribed to “Palestine” Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, the site of the ancient Jewish fortress at Betar and Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs. And an expert warned that it likely was going to designate Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls that were found there as “Palestinian.”
Now Global Christian News reports a proposal that UNESCO designated several Japanese islands where Christians were persecuted and killed as heritage sites.
The Japan Times reports a preliminary review panel for UNESCO has suggested adding sites linked to Japan’s history of persecution of Christians to the world’s cultural heritage list. (Read more from “Will ‘Delusional’ U.N. Recognize Christian Sites?” HERE)
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Sites in Kyushu Linked to Christian Persecution Pass Preliminary Review for Unesco Heritage List
By The Japan Times. . .Japan says the assets, located in Kyushu, show how Christians upheld their faith despite persecution by the Tokugawa shogunate.
Meanwhile, the panel recommended further review for a chain of islands in Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures that Tokyo had proposed be added to the organization’s list of natural sites.
A ministry official told reporters at a news conference in Tokyo that the government is confident the Christian sites will be officially registered as recommended, while also expressing disappointment about UNESCO’s decision on the islands.
The listing of the sites associated with the history of persecuted Christians will be officially discussed at a meeting of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee June 24-July 4 in Bahrain.
If the Paris-based international body agrees to list them, it would bring the total number of Japanese items on the world’s cultural and natural heritage lists to 22. (Read more from “Sites in Kyushu Linked to Christian Persecution Pass Preliminary Review for Unesco Heritage List” HERE)
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