holy several career is believed to be on the site where jesus was crucified shared by the greek orthodox armenian a stylish and roman catholic church is united in fear it israel's move has details . i'm standing here in one of the most sacred sites in christianity of the church of the holy city this is a place where does believe that christ was crucified and buried and ways arrested but as you can feel the door to the church is closed following a decision by church leaders after jerusalem municipality announced it was going to start collecting tens of millions of dollars in property taxes from churches for church and property without houses of worship now this flies in the face of a generations old agreement i've been talking to pull guns here from all over most of whom of course disappointed when it is they come to visit the city of jerusalem on the holy land and they're leaving their families the pool of blood and bill for of money to spend on hotel is transportation. and so on to leaving their jobs and their leaving their family to come to his the church and they want to put the fun the church

draws pilgrims from around the world to the church of the holy sepulcher but this sunday the greek orthodox armenian and catholic churches which jointly run the site announced its abrupt closure protesting against measures which they say would constrain their rights over church property is that in mind the. office which we're in now. in europe. this is the back the. back against christians in the holy land. levi only. and serve the right the church leaders say they face a twin attack first in the shape of a demand by jerusalem city government what it says is more than one hundred eighty million dollars in back taxes and secondly from proposed legislation which would seize retroactively for the state church land sold to private companies for sundays in the square outside the church of the holy sepulcher always thronged with tourists and christian pilgrims many of whom are travelled a long way to see this most important holy site it's always an atmosphere of emotion today the chief atmosphere though is one of disappointment the belief that jesus christ died and if he was buried here we would have like

draws pilgrims from around the world to the church of the holy sepulcher but this sunday the greek orthodox armenian and catholic churches which jointly run the site announced its abrupt closure protesting against measures which they say would constrain their rights over church property this that in mind. offer loans office in that range which were not. in europe. this is the about the and unprecedented attack against christians in their holy land. levi only most basic. and serve the right the church leaders say they face a twin attack first in the shape of a demand by jerusalem city government what it says is more than one hundred eighty million dollars in back taxes and secondly from proposed legislation which would seize retroactively for the state church land sold to private companies or sundays in the square outside the church of the holy sepulcher always thronged with tourists and christian pilgrims many of whom are travelled a long way to see this most important holy site it's always an atmosphere of emotion today the chief atmosphere though is one of disappointment the belief that jesus chri

what we have seen was a joint struggle not only of the three main churches -- the armenian, the greek orthodox, and the catholics, but also muslims. there were representatives of the palestinian authority, and all of this has culminated into a protest movement. now, they are seeing as a victory the fact that the prime minister has announced he would shelve all the plans for taxing properties. we are talking about properties that belong to the church. but these will not be taxed for now. another lelegislation anand parliament that was supposed to go touough and t tt would gigive the israeleli governmentnt possibilitity to confiscate chuh land -- that would also be frozen. anchor: to venezuela now. the countries president, nicolas maduro, has been jubilant. he was seen dancing on stage in caracas in front of crowds of supporters after he presented his candidacy for reelection this april. his opponents have already said they will be boycotting those elections, describing them as being a farce aimed at fostering maduro's leadership. one opposition politician has gone against the views of maduro ri

to suspend for now its attempts to collect back taxes from the three churches involved the armenian greek orthodox and roman catholic churches it's also allowed for the suspension of any proposed legislation which would see the israeli government have the ability to claim land seize land which the church had sold to private investors that is something that the church says is discriminatory along with the attempt to claim taxes from what it says should be tax exempt properties in and around jerusalem for the tourists for the pilgrims this of course is a very happy day it was very important for us and they quit impression for us because we are we waited three days to come in and we have no chance to call there and it was very impressive for us it was on our our tour and i actually thought we may not get to come and so now i think it really joyous the price to be able to come in here so christians once again have access to sites such as this the slab where jesus said to have been prepared for burial the question now is how this is resolved the plan is for a committee which includes ministers the jews

to suspend for now its attempts to collect back taxes from the three churches involved the armenian greek orthodoxand roman catholic churches it's also allowed for the suspension of any proposed legislation which would see the israeli government have the ability to claim land seize land which the church had sold to private investors that is something that the church says is discriminatory along with the attempt to claim taxes from what it says it should be tax exempt properties in and around jerusalem for the tourists for the pilgrims this of course is a very happy day it was very important for us and. impression for us because we didn't see days to come in and we have no chance to call there and they tell us that the place if us it was an hour or two in actually that we may not get to come and so now i think it really joyous the price to be able to come in here so christians once again have access to sites such as this the slab where jesus said to have been prepared for burial the question now is how this is resolved the plan is for a committee which includes ministers the jews from his party and

to suspend for now its attempts to collect back taxes from the three churches involved the armenian greek orthodox and roman catholic churches it's also allowed for the suspension of any proposed legislation which would see the israeli government have the ability to claim land seize land which the church had sold to private investors that is something that the church says is discriminatory along with the attempt to claim taxes from what it says should be tax exempt properties in and around jerusalem for the tourists for the pilgrims this of course is a very happy day it was very important for us and they quit impression for us because we waited three days to come in and we have no chance to call there and it was very impressive for us it was on our our tour and i actually thought we may not get to come and so now it's it really joyous the price to be able to come in here so christians once again have access to sites such as this the slab where jesus said to be prepared for burial the question now is how this is resolved the plan is for a committee which includes ministers the jews. ms power to you