Outrage at desecration of historic Protestant Cemetery in Jerusalem
Police investigates the desecration of at least 30 tombstones by two Jewish-looking individuals at the 19th century Protestant Cemetery in Jerusalem.
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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby condemned on Wednesday the desecration of the Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion calling the vandalism of at least 30 tombstones a "blasphemous act."
“The desecration of Christian graves in Jerusalem is a blasphemous act. I join the chief rabbi and religious leaders in Jerusalem in condemning it," the archbishop said.