Fire Threatens Shrine on Mount Tabor - Israel

July 27, 2019 by sd

From the Times of Israel:

A forest fire in northern Israel’s Galilee region is threatening a church where Christians believe the transfiguration of Jesus took place, Israel Fire and Rescue Services said Friday.

It said in a statement that the blaze broke out on Thursday and monks were evacuated from the Basilica of the Transfiguration overnight. The basilica, built in 1924, by the Roman Catholic Franciscan order, sits atop the wooded Mount Tabor at a site where the Christian gospels say that Jesus — accompanied by disciples Peter, John and James — glowed with light and spoke with the prophets Moses and Elijah.