Head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem Archbishop Atallah Hanna introduced on Friday that Christians should not keep silent concerning the Israeli occupation’s crimes in opposition to Palestinians, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported.
The archbishop’s remarks got here throughout a gathering with a delegation from the Palestinian orthodox Christians in Israel to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
In response to the newspaper, the delegation toured Jerusalem and Bethlehem, listening to Hanna communicate on the significance of historic Christian websites within the Previous Metropolis of Jerusalem.
“Now we have at all times been beside the oppressed and preachers of peace, love, fraternity and humanity,” Hanna expressed. “We reject all types of hatred and racism… and take the aspect of the simply points, freedom and human dignity.”
Hanna reiterated that Palestinians have been subjected to “oppression and repeated catastrophes”, stressing that Palestinians have the proper to freedom.
“Due to this fact,” he urged, “we, as Christians, can not keep impartial as some need us to be. Once we see oppressed or persecuted individuals, we’ve got to face beside them.”
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In the meantime, he added that Palestinians have been sacrificing all the pieces for the sake of freedom. “We, as Palestinian Christians, can not keep silent in direction of the Israeli occupation’s oppression,” he stated.
“We’re half and parcel of the elements of this nation and its trigger,” he shared, affirming that the Palestinian trigger: “Is our trigger, our ache and our struggling… The Palestinian dream of freedom can be our personal dream.”
In response to Hanna, the birthplace of Jesus Christ “longs for justice and peace” and known as for praying for the sake of reaching: “The actual peace, not give up and acceptance of aggression, persecution and authoritarianism.”
