Ms Margaret Ritchie – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ms Margaret Ritchie on 2016-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of attacks on Christian places of worship in Israel in each of the last three years.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

The ‘Registry of Attacks on Holy Sites in the Holy Land’ has listed 22 cases of vandalism and arson on Christian places of worship in Israel and the West Bank since February 2013, most recently vandalism against the Dormition Abbey compound on 17 January. We condemn all such attacks.