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ISTANBUL Several European leaders voiced concerns and in some cases condemnation after Israeli police prevented the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Palm Sunday Mass. A statement issued by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said preventing Pizzaballa from entering the church "constitutes an offense not only to believers, but to every community that recognizes religious freedom." Foreign Minister