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February 13, 2017

Historic Israeli church reopens in Galilee 20 months after arson attack

A clergyman stands inside the Church of Loaves and Fishes following a 2015 fire in Tabgha, Israel. Twenty months after having suffered serious damage from an arson attack, the atrium of the Benedictine church was reopened.

JERUSALEM – Twenty months after having suffered serious damage from an arson attack, the atrium of the Benedictine Church of the Loaves and Fishes was reopened Feb. 12. German Cardinal Rainer Woelki of Cologne, president of the German Association of the Holy Land, celebrating a Mass to mark the event.

Published in International