The Catholic Culture website reports today (July 31, 2010) that city officials in Jerusalem are threatening to cut off the supply of water for the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The city has provided free water service to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for nearly a century, as a service to pilgrims and a courtesy to clerics who administer the shrine.
Church officials say that the city is now asking for payment not only for the current water usage, but for usage dating back to the Israeli takeover of Jerusalem in 1967.
The administration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is governed by an agreement of the various Christian denominations that work there: Greek Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian, Coptic, Syrian, and Ethiopian.
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