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DESECRATION OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF ZALKA, SHOOTING AGAINST THE SCHOOL OF THE HOLY HEARTS IN BAALBECK
The article is in French and below is the English translation:
http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/Liban/article/777955/Profanation_de_l%27eglise_armenienne_de_Zalka_%3B_ tirs_contre_l%27ecole_des_Saints-Coeurs_a_Baalbeck.html
Unknown persons broke inside the Church of the Cross, Zalka, within
the Armenian community Catholic, announced yesterday the parish
priest, Fr Narek Louissian. Strangers ripped icons and images of
saints installed in the church, and thrown to the ground and smashed
a statue of Saint Rita, said the priest, who called on the authorities
to quickly identify the perpetrators of the desecration.
The police and politicians were informed of this plan, which some
associate with the stigma associated wave in the world by a film
deeply offensive to Muslims.
Recurrence ...
In addition, shots were directed a Christian school on Wednesday
Baalbeck. The director of the school, which is the congregation of
Saints Hearts, Sr Emilia Tannous, said it was the second such incident
and that shots had been referred for the first time in school and the
entrance to the building housing the housing involved in religious
school, September 2. In addition, at the insults of the director were
written on the walls of the school.
According to Sr Emilia, aggression could be designed to force the
direction of the school to include in its program an hour of Islamic
religious education, while the school offers one hour of religious
and social.
The fire could also be designed to force the management to reconsider
its decision not to be idle Friday and Sunday, as it did for a number
of years, but Saturday and Sunday as all schools of the congregation.
This decision was taken after a red light in this direction obtained
from Hezbollah. But it could have upset the Sunni community in the
shadow of a rivalry more intense between the two Muslim communities
emerged in recent months.
For its part, the Maronite Bishop of Baalbeck and Deir el-Ahmar,
Semaan Atallah, said that this is an "isolated act" that emanates
neither a party nor a religious authority .
From: A. Papazian
The article is in French and below is the English translation:
http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/Liban/article/777955/Profanation_de_l%27eglise_armenienne_de_Zalka_%3B_ tirs_contre_l%27ecole_des_Saints-Coeurs_a_Baalbeck.html
Unknown persons broke inside the Church of the Cross, Zalka, within
the Armenian community Catholic, announced yesterday the parish
priest, Fr Narek Louissian. Strangers ripped icons and images of
saints installed in the church, and thrown to the ground and smashed
a statue of Saint Rita, said the priest, who called on the authorities
to quickly identify the perpetrators of the desecration.
The police and politicians were informed of this plan, which some
associate with the stigma associated wave in the world by a film
deeply offensive to Muslims.
Recurrence ...
In addition, shots were directed a Christian school on Wednesday
Baalbeck. The director of the school, which is the congregation of
Saints Hearts, Sr Emilia Tannous, said it was the second such incident
and that shots had been referred for the first time in school and the
entrance to the building housing the housing involved in religious
school, September 2. In addition, at the insults of the director were
written on the walls of the school.
According to Sr Emilia, aggression could be designed to force the
direction of the school to include in its program an hour of Islamic
religious education, while the school offers one hour of religious
and social.
The fire could also be designed to force the management to reconsider
its decision not to be idle Friday and Sunday, as it did for a number
of years, but Saturday and Sunday as all schools of the congregation.
This decision was taken after a red light in this direction obtained
from Hezbollah. But it could have upset the Sunni community in the
shadow of a rivalry more intense between the two Muslim communities
emerged in recent months.
For its part, the Maronite Bishop of Baalbeck and Deir el-Ahmar,
Semaan Atallah, said that this is an "isolated act" that emanates
neither a party nor a religious authority .
From: A. Papazian