Catholics Decry Anti-Christianity in Israel
ICC Note
“In these days, during a night show on Channel 10, a series of horrible offenses were launched against our faith and consequently against us, Christians.”
02/20/2009 Israel (zenit.org) – Leaders of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land are condemning the “revolting attacks” against Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, broadcast by Israel ‘s Channel 10 television.
A joint communiqué issued Wednesday explains, “In these days, during a night show on Channel 10, a series of horrible offenses were launched against our faith and consequently against us, Christians.”
The communiqué was signed by the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem and the Franciscan custos of the Holy Land , among others.
“The show directed its attacks to the holiest figures of our Christian belief in an attempt, as the director of the show himself specifically declared, to destroy Christianism,” the communiqué stated.
“Channel 10 was used to desecrate the holiest figures of Christianism offending hundreds of thousands of Christian Israeli citizens and of many millions of Christians all over the world as well,” the Catholic leaders lamented.
