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Attack on church near Bethlehem

May 23, 2014

Local Muslims stabbed a guard and threw stones at a church in a village near Bethlehem, according to a report by the Israeli media network Arutz Sheva.

“Seven or eight Christians were injured and some physical damage was done-- broken windows, etc.,” a blogger who has coauthored a book on religious persecution said in describing the May 6 incident. “The police didn’t show up for an hour.”

 


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