Last week, we reported on a Jewish extremist who attempted to burn down a Catholic church in Jerusalem. More details have now emerged about the attack, which succeeded in setting fire to a number of pews within the church.
According to WAFA news, Palestinian eyewitnesses have stated that ‘We saw the church guard following a religious Jewish guy who seems to have taken advantage of the COVID-19 restrictions and tried to burn the church’s wooden benches’.
The four Palestinian men are said to have followed him out of suspicion and saved the church when it was set alight.
Bishop William Shomali, from the Latin Patriarchate in Jordan said, ‘‘For a radical Jewish person to try and burn a church that is close to the hearts of all Christians is painful and disgusting. This is hurtful to all those who work on reconciliation between people and religions.”
Interestingly, Ramzi Khoury of the Presidential Committee of Church Affairs said that this was part of a wider problem with Israelis, who had been targeting Mosques also.
Condemning the spate of anti Christian and anti Islamic violence, Wasfi Kailani who works with funds for restoring historic Mosques in the region stated that, ‘This is part of a campaign that rejects everything that is not Jewish. In all these attacks against religious institutions, no one has been held responsible for these despicable acts.”
It is important to always bypass mainstream media in the west, do our own research and to find out the truth for ourselves, which may sometimes feel uncomfortable in light of what the mainstream media tries to tell us.