CARDINAL SEAN Brady of Armagh has accepted an apology from the Israeli government after he was turned away from Jerusalem's Western Wall for wearing a cross.
Cardinal Brady was leading an ecumenical delegation from Ireland that included the leaders of the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian and Methodist churches. The delegation attempted to make an unscheduled visit to the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, after visiting the nearby al-Aqsa Mosque, but a settler objected and threatened to confront them.
A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Dublin said that the Israeli government has now offered to schedule a visit to the site by the leaders of Ireland's four main churches.