Your slaying, my lady, before Christmas, by a criminal sniper on the premises of the Holy Family Church in Gaza, then the slaying of your daughter Samar and the wounding of seven others with you, was new proof of Israel\u2019s folly. Did the criminal intend to kill you or to kill the feast in Gaza? The \u201ccriminal\u201d hates that Jesus, through His blessed birth in your land, has adopted us to His Father! He does not want you. He does not want the feast. He does not want a \"holy family\"! Nevertheless, in dying, you have defeated him! Your death has granted great eloquence to the lips of elders in your Church. The Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem angrily repeated that assaulting people, especially in places of worship, is a \u201cheinous criminal act\u201d. As for His Holiness the Pope who had been calling the \u201ccombatants\u201d to stop a fighting \u201cthat has surpassed war\u201d and \u201chas become terrorism\u201d, he has slammed the folly of Israel by calling this aggression an act of \u201cterrorism\u201d. Be in the peace of God in heaven, which is all a feast, and complete your struggle by supplicating Him for the completion of your victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Your slaying, my lady, before Christmas, by a criminal sniper on the premises of the Holy Family Church in Gaza, then the slaying of your daughter Samar and the wounding of seven others with you, was new proof of Israel\u2019s folly. Did the criminal intend to kill you or to kill the feast in Gaza? ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1770,361,1769,1772,1771,1773,447],"class_list":["post-9200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-martyrdom","tag-church","tag-gaza-church-attack","tag-holy-family-church","tag-latin-patriarchate","tag-orthodox-christian-persecution","tag-orthodox-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}