Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza Shelters Muslims Fleeing War
About a 1,000 Palestinian Muslims in Gaza have found relative safety within the walls of a 900-year-old Greek Orthodox church.
“We have opened the church in order to help people. This is the duty of the church and we are doing all we can to help them,” Archbishop Alexios told Reuters as the sounds of small children echoed outside his office at the church.
“At the beginning there were 600 people and today they became a thousand - mostly children and women. Some of those children are a week old,” said the head of Gaza’s Greek Orthodox minority, the largest of the Christian communities here.
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