Vice President JD Vance visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Israel, on Thursday, paying his respects to the traditional site where many Catholics believe that Jesus Christ was buried after his crucifixion.

Many Protestants believe that the true site lies outside the Old City in an area known as the Garden Tomb. Nevertheless, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre draws Christian visitors and pilgrims from all backgrounds.

Vance, who is on a three-day trip to Israel with his wifeto show solidarity with the Jewish state and to shore up support for President Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal in Gaza, recently converted to the Catholic faith.

He paused to kneel, as many pilgrims do, at the slab that is said to have been the stone where Jesus’s body was placed before being cleansed

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