The Holy Land attracts pilgrims from all over the world. Withal, the 42nd anniversary of the Israeli occupation of Palestine following the June 1967 war prompts us that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict stays unresolved even though it’s admitted that resolving it should be a grave priority if peace is to come to the region that impacts on the wider world.

Applied its complexity, this conflict, defined as it’s by the sharp edges of a Jewish/Arab divide with its religious, historical, political, cultural and other dimensions, could be seen altho the prism of several perspectives. Among these is touristry.

The Holy Land is place to the 3 monotheistic and Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It’s a plentiful repository of sites believed precious and of deep religious significance by believers all over the world. These sites draw pilgrims in the 1000s as illustrated, for example, by media images of visitors participating in Christian Lenten events. All over the world, also, many travel agencies organize pilgrimages to the Holy Land. Evidently, to the Israeli authorities, these are an priceless source of holidaymaker dollars.

Even so, unfortunately, these encounters don’t occur in a peaceful surround. The all region is sub a pall of battle,conflict and suspicion.

In the worries of justice for all, ECOT addresses on the pilgrims and the travel agencies which arrange these pilgrimages not to dissociate them of a keeping context - the situation presenting the Palestinian people.

A lot of the pilgrims who attend the Holy Land go there because that’s where Jesus lived, taught and died. Jesus was a Palestinian too and belonged to nation who still live there. Jesus Christ’ teachings on peace and justice apply to his people also. A pilgrimage to the Holy Land allows an opportunity to view his message in the context of their present-day truth. A visit to the historical places of the past is a useful experience. The pilgrim’s journey is immensely enriched if it helps the pilgrim to relate it to the ‘living stones’ – the people living there now. The perceptivities generated could be communicated to the people back in one’s own country, and thereby, inside a global community of nations, assist advocate for policies that usher lasting peace and transformation in the Holy Land. Therein sense the pilgrimage would build a real contribution to peace in the world.