Churches Denounce Israel Violence Against Christians

[Purveyor]

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JERUSALEM (Ma’an) – Patriarchs and heads of Christian churches in Jerusalem on Sunday released a joint statement denouncing attacks by Israeli police officers on worshipers and pilgrims during Holy Saturday at the Church of Holy Sepulcher.

Signatories of the statement highlighted that they saw “awful scenes of the brutal treatment to clerics, average people and pilgrims in Jerusalem during Holy Saturday.”

They added: “A day of joy was turned into a day of severe sadness and pain for several of our faithful brothers who were mistreated by a number of Israeli police officers at the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem leading to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.”

It is unacceptable, according to the statement, that clergymen and average people “get beaten brutally and indiscriminately and be denied access to their churches under the pretext of keeping order.”

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[awoke_in_2003]

1. How do they feel about Israeli violence...

against Palestenians?

[malaise]

2. Their collective silence has been deafening

They came for...and I was silent...and then they came for me

[longship]

3. Well, the monks of the various Christian sects fight, too.

Here is Jesus meek and mild at his best as interpreted by monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher discussing the allocation of worship time at the putative site of Jesus' tomb.

Looks more like Kung Foo movie than worship at Christianity's most holy site, eh?

When people make a claim to territory based on religious ideology, this is what inevitably happens. This is how they behave.

Hitchens said it right. Religion poisons everything.