Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem: Christians want to be expelled from Jerusalem and other parts of the Holy Land

His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and All Palestine spoke about the difficulties that the Christians of Jerusalem are currently experiencing, speaking on December 21, 2021 at a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the Al-Husseinia Palace. According to the established tradition, in the days preceding the celebration of Christmas, the Jordanian monarch holds an event to which the heads and representatives of the Christian Churches of the Holy Land are invited, the DECR website reports.

“Christians have become the targets of repeated attacks by radical Zionist groups, especially in the Holy City,” stated His Beatitude. – Since 2012, countless crimes have been committed against Christians, including physical and verbal attacks on priests and other clerics; temples were attacked, holy places were vandalized and systematically desecrated. And this is in addition to the constant intimidation of the Christian population, and after all, all they want is to live a normal life, since God gave them this right. ”

The Primate of the Jerusalem Orthodox Church expressed confidence that such actions of radicalist groups are dictated by the desire to expel Christians from Jerusalem and other parts of the Holy Land.