JERUSALEM, (OSV News) -- Following a rampage of a radical Jewish gang in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City on the evening of Jan. 26, the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries in the Holy Land called on political and religious authorities to bring civil and religious life in Jerusalem back to 'greater serenity.
'This is only the latest in a series of episodes of religious violence that is affecting the symbols of the Christian community and beyond,' they said in their Jan. 27 state