Catholics Decry Anti-Christianity in Israel

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 communique 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 communique 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 communique stated.