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| City of Bethlehem, West Bank (Photo by Soman) |
There is always a high price to pay for religious persecution. In this particular case, what has been called “price tagging” in Israel continues to threaten the already-shaky peace.
Jeffrey Heller of Reuters
reports that such “price tagging” involves attacks by ultra-nationalist Israelis as payback “for any curbs on Jewish settlement on Palestinian land.”
These attacks have increased greatly “over the past month since the Israeli military demolished structures in a West Bank settlement built without government authorization.”
Past price tagging has included attacks upon West Bank mosques, monasteries and homes. It is
feared that attention-grabbing attacks upon Christian sites will intensify before and during the Pope’s upcoming visit.
Pope Francis will be visiting the Holy Land from May 24 to 26. His tour will include the West Bank, Jerusalem and Jordan.
Resources
http://news.yahoo.com/anti-christian-graffiti-raise-alarm-popes-holy-land-104538631.html
Copyright May 8, 2014 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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