The Holy city for three Abrahamic religions
We arrived in Jerusalem at about 3 a.m. We were among a group of 50 pilgrims comprising Americans and Canadians for whom it was like a dream come true, a lifelong wish fulfilled! Spiritually, it was an almost incredible stroke of good fortune that it happened to be the 27th night of Rajab – the night our Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh – peace be upon him) had been taken on his miraculous journey from Makkah to Jerusalem and then to the heavens, nearly 1500 years ago.
In the worldly sense, another historic event was the fact that our visit to Jerusalem coincided with Pope Francis’s first ever visit to this holy city. In fact, it was the first visit by any Pope after 1964.
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