Thousands of letters sent each year to God end up in a sorting office in Jerusalem. According to the Associated Press, the letters arrive from all over the world in the city's undeliverable mail department.

"We have hundreds of thousands of letters sent either to God or Jesus Christ, and for some reason they come to Jerusalem," said post office spokesman Yitzak Rabihiya.

In one letter an Israeli man asked God for 5,000 shekels ($1,000), to ease his poverty. Postal workers were so moved that they sent him 4,300 shekels.

"After a month the same person wrote again to God," Mr. Rabihiya explained, "but this time he wrote, 'Thank you, God, for the contribution, but next time please don't send it through those postmen. They're thieves; they stole 700 shekels'."