Assault on a Nun in Jerusalem: The Holy Land’s Descent into Pagan Savagery Under the Banner of “Religious Freedom”
Vatican News portal (May 1, 2026) reports the arrest of a 36-year-old man by Israeli police for the alleged assault of a 48-year-old French-born religious sister and researcher at the French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. The attack occurred on April 28 near King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, where the nun was chased, pushed to the ground, and kicked. Father Olivier Poquillon, director of the school, condemned the “unprovoked attack” and the “scourge of hatred,” while Israeli authorities assured their commitment to “safeguarding freedom of religion and freedom of worship for all faiths.” The Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem expressed “deep shock,” noting a “troubling pattern of growing hostility toward the Christian community.” This incident is a stark manifestation of the spiritual bankruptcy of the modern secular state, which, while professing “religious freedom,” provides no true protection for the faithful against the rising tide of hatred and violence, a direct consequence of the rejection of Christ the King’s sovereignty over nations.
