2 West Bank Churches Hit by Firebombs
Pastor Dale Morgan
2 West Bank Churches Hit by Firebombs*
Saturday September 16, 2006 8:31 AM
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Two churches in the West Bank were hit by
firebombs early Saturday, witnesses and clergy said, and a group
claiming responsiblity said the attacks were meant as a protest against
comments by Pope Benedict XVI about Islam.
The firebombs left black scorch marks on the walls and windows of a
Roman Catholic and an Anglican church in the West Bank city of Nablus.
Father Yousef, a priest at the Anglican Church, said several firebombs
hit the church's outside wall.
In a phone call to The Associated Press, a group calling itself the
``Lions of Monotheism'' claimed responsibility. The caller said the
attacks were carried out to protest the pope's remarks about Islam.
During a speech earlier this week, Benedict had cited an obscure
Medieval text that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam's
founder as ``evil and inhuman.''