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Five Church Schools in Gaza Face Closure after Hamas Order


(Catholic Herald-UK) Judith Sudilovsky - Five schools in Gaza - two Catholic and three Christian - face closure if the Hamas government follows through on an order forbidding co-educational institutions, according to the director general of Latin Patriarchate Schools in Palestine and Israel. Fr. Faysal Hijazin said: "We don't have the space and we don't have the money to divide our schools." Although the order did not specifically single out the Christian schools, the five are the only schools with mixed enrollment in Gaza.
2013-06-07 00:00:00
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