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Israeli Police Arrest a Man Suspected of Attacking a Nun Near Jerusalem’s Old City
Police say the 36-year-old suspect remains in custody as authorities investigate a possible racially motivated attack on a researcher who suffered bruises.
- Israeli police arrested a 36-year-old man on Wednesday for assaulting a French nun near King David's Tomb in Jerusalem on Tuesday, with authorities investigating potential racist motives.
- The victim, a researcher at the French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research, was walking in the Bab al Nabi Dawud area when she was thrown onto a rock and kicked repeatedly, according to Father Olivier Poquillon.
- Father Poquillon denounced the "sectarian violence," while the Faculty of Humanities at Jerusalem's Hebrew University condemned the attack as part of a "troubling pattern of rising hostility toward the Christian community."
- Recent tensions escalated when police blocked Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday, and Israeli soldiers destroyed a Jesus statue in southern Lebanon earlier this month.
- Data from the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue and the Religious Freedom Data Center recorded 155 to 181 incidents of assault and vandalism targeting Christians in Jerusalem during 2025, underscoring escalating hostility.
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Spain also condemns the brutal aggression and calls on Israel to "guarantee freedom of worship"
A 48-year-old French nun was violently pushed down the street in Jerusalem.
·Paris, France
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The French Catholic nun escaped with bruises.
·Hungary
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A man walking up to a nun and then pushing her to the ground: the image, filmed in Jerusalem, is causing widespread outrage. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the video and called it "a harmful act."
·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Total News Sources121
Leaning Left25Leaning Right29Center24Last UpdatedBias Distribution37% Right
Bias Distribution
- 37% of the sources lean Right
37% Right
L 32%
C 31%
R 37%
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