Haaretz: The Vatican’s Custody of the Holy Land demanded the attorney general and state prosecutor charge the leader of the far-right Israeli group Lehava, Benzi Gopstein, with incitement for calling for churches in Israel to be torched.
An indictment was necessary “out of consideration of the public interest and of the present danger to churches and Christian communities in the country, and the real concern of further harm to them as a result of this incitement,” the Custody’s representative, Attorney Farid Joubran, wrote in a letter to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan.
The Custody is an institution of the Franciscan Order in charge of tending to Christian shrines in Israel and in the West Bank. Its head is appointed with the approval of the Pope and the Holy See.
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