Israel bars church leaders from Palm Sunday mass ‘for the first time in centuries,’ church says

By Eugenia Yosef, Antonia Mortensen, Christopher Lamb and Tim Lister (CNN) — For the first time in centuries, Catholic leaders have been barred from Jerusalem’s Church of Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, according to church authorities in the holy city. The Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem said Israeli police prevented the church’s senior leaders from entering