Tabgha arsonists arrested

Tabgha arsonists arrested 2015-07-29T23:20:39-06:00

 

 

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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