Christians on the West Bank face more fire bomb attacks

Posted by Robert on April 27, 2006 9:45 AM

Islamic Tolerance Alert from [1] Ekklesia, with thanks to Cornelius:

A Roman Catholic parish school and a Protestant Bible-study centre in the West Bank have been fire-bombed twice since the Islamist Hamas movement won a legislative election in January 2006, according to Christian clerics in the region.

According to the Presbyterian Church USA News Service, a priest at the Roman Catholic Al-Ahliyya College in the West Bank city of Ramallah says that several fire-bombs were thrown into a school sports room in early March 2006, causing serious damage and destroying equipment stored there.

About a month earlier, said the same priest, several petrol bombs were thrown into an Al-Ahliyya classroom.

In other recent incidents, a Protestant Bible-study centre in the town of Bir-Zeit near Ramallah was attacked, and phrases from the Qur’an were daubed on its doors. Windows in a Lutheran church in Ramallah were also shattered by unknown assailants.


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/04/christians-on-the-west-bank-face-more-fire-bomb-attacks.html

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