Tabgha arsonists arrested

Tabgha arsonists arrested July 29, 2015

 

 

Shankbone Tabgha Multiplication
The courtyard of the Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha
Photo by David Shankbone
(Click to enlarge.)

 

Some of you, I know, have been to the Church of the Multiplication — full name: The Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes — at Tabgha, on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee.  And you may know that it was seriously damaged a few weeks ago, along with some of the other buildings in the complex, by an arson fire.

 

I bought a book in the now-badly-burned gift shop there back in May.  Apparently, many if not all of the books that I didn’t buy were destroyed in the blaze.  (I’ve pointed that out to my wife.  See?  If I don’t rescue all those books out there in bookstores around the world, they run the serious risk of being incinerated.  I’m on an urgent mission of mercy.)

 

Tabgha mosaic
A detail of the famous ancient mosaic at Tabgha

(Click to enlarge.)

 

Now, two suspects are in custody:

 

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Thanks to Allen Hansen for alerting me to this welcome development.

 

Posted from Victoria, British Columbia

 


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