The Roman Catholic Church’s custodian of religious sites in the Holy Land has granted forgiveness to a family that set off firecrackers at the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth.
The Roman Catholic Church’s custodian of religious sites in the Holy Land has granted forgiveness to a family that set off firecrackers at the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth. The Rev. Pierbattista Pizzaballa met the family – an Israeli Jew, his Polish Christian wife and their grown daughter – at a prison where they were being held in police custody after the assault at the church. He said they expressed deep remorse for the 3 March attack which was carried out when the church was full of worshippers attending a Mass for the Christian Lenten season which commemorates a period of fasting by Jesus.
