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Daily Briefing
Jerusalem bishop condemns attack on Karak church as Anglican leaders gather in Kigali
Bishop Hosam Naoum, the Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, condemned a terrorist attack that targeted the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint George in Hamoud town, in Karak Governorate, in a statement issued on Sunday. Anglican Ink carried the report. It was datelined Amman and credited to the news agency Petra.
The detail that matters here is who spoke and for whom. The church attacked belongs to the Orthodox tradition. The bishop who condemned the attack is an Anglican. That a leader of one tradition should speak up for a congregation of another is not remarkable in these places; it is the ordinary shape of Christian life under threat. Anglican Ink did not, in the material supplied, give a toll or name those harmed, and so neither will this briefing.