Christian missions face death threats in Jerusalem as Israeli authorities look away

The abbot of the German-speaking Jerusalem Benedictine Dormition Abbey discovered anti-Christian graffiti on Thursday on the outer wall of the Greek Orthodox cemetery next to the Dormition Abbey.

Photos that Nikodemus Schnabel published on X show the graffiti, which reads: "The Christian mission is worse than Hamas. Death to missionaries. A missionary is a Nazi."

"Is this Christian hatred, terror trivialization or a call for murder?" the abbot asked. 

"The public surveillance cameras in Jerusalem are so good that the city cleaners are immediately on the spot to remove hate graffiti, but at the same time so bad that the police can never identify the sprayers," noted the abbot. 

There has been rising anti-Christian violence in occupied Jerusalem at the hands of extremist Israeli groups.