ISTANBUL

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Sunday that the Israeli ambassador will be summoned to the Foreign Ministry after Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa was denied entry to a church in Jerusalem and prevented from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass.

“I have instructed that the Israeli ambassador be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs tomorrow to provide clarification on the decision to prevent Cardinal Pizzaballa from celebrating Palm Sunday,” Tajani wrote on US-based social media platform X.

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, was denied entry to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, preventing him from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass.