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Heart and Soul: My Life and Faith in Jerusalem

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It’s one of the worlds most important spiritual sites but also central to the religious strife that engulfs the Middle East

30/03/2018 GMT

My Life and Faith in Jerusalem

BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, My Life and Faith in Jerusalem

Living and praying in Jerusalem, the world’s most religiously contentious city

It’s the most religiously contentious place on earth. Jews, Muslims and Christians all claim it as the centre of their faith. Lipika Pelham meets those who live in Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the most religiously contentious city in the world

On the weekend that Easter coincides with Passover and after President Trump’s controversial declaration of it as the capital of Israel, Lipika Pelham takes a journey around this contested city, talking to Jerusalemites who tell her how their faiths and lives are interconnected.

She meets the Muslim who for 40 years has kept the Dome of the Rock clean, the devoted Jews praying at the sacred walls to explore how they are waiting at that very spot for the Third Temple to be rebuilt, and at Easter she joins Christians to walk the route taken by Jesus to his eventual crucifixion on Good Friday
 
The religious and the political is constantly interwoven in this beautiful but complex city, Lipika will hear from worshippers from these three faiths to hear how  Jerusalem is the centre of the believers’ spiritual quest.

Producer and Presenter: Lipika Pelham

Photo: Dome of the Rock   Credit: Getty Images

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