MORE SAMARITAN NEWS: Tom Heneghan, writer of the Reuters article noted yesterday, has a post on the Reuters Faith World Blog, Visiting the Samaritans on their holy West Bank mountain, which contains background information. (Be sure also to check out the update to yesterday's post, with a letter from Sharon Sullivan Dufour.)

Also relevant, on the IDF website note this Invitation to the Grand Opening of the Good Samaritan Mosaic Museum. Excerpt:

The site, identified with the biblical city of Ma'ale Adumin, is now home to the first museum of its kind in Israel and one of the largest in the world, which will display mosaics and other archeological findings discovered in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. Additional exhibits include mosaics and artifacts from Jewish and Samaritan synagogues, as well as various objects found in Christian churches.

(Via Joseph I. Lauer.)