Holy Land Christians protest outside the Stella Maris Monastery in Haifa, Israel, against what they see as insufficient action by the Israeli police regarding provocations by radical Jews at the monastery, July 30. Photo: OSV News/Debbie Hill Judith Sudilovsky The Stella Maris Carmelite monastery has seen destruction and banishment over its centuries’-old history, dating back to the mid-13th Century. The recent attempts by a group of Jewish religious extremists to declare the monastery a Jewish holy site has however, for the first time, led to the monks installing metal fencing around its…
