News Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
| 9 months ago
The Vatican has denounced an Israeli television satire of Christianity as "blasphemous" and complained about it to the Israeli government. A Vatican statement released Friday said a skit, broadcast earlier this month on a late-night show on Israel's...
News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| 9 months ago
Olmert apologizes for talk show host's Vatican remark Prime Minister Ehud Olmert addressed talk show host Lior Shlein's satiric skit ridiculing the Vatican, and said "I have no intention of limiting the freedom of speech in the country, but there is...
News Source: Israel National News
| 9 months ago
Dozens of Christians protested Saturday at Kfar Yassif on the Akko-Carmiel road in northern Israel, demanding that Channel 10 fire comedian Lior Schlein, host of the station's Tonight Show, over a sketch that has been condemned by the Vatican.
News Source: Ynet News
| 9 months ago
In the program, Shlein sarcastically denied Christian traditions, saying that Mary was no virgin and that Jesus did not walked on water. The talk- show host said he was doing so as a "lesson" to Christians who deny the Holocaust. The Vatican was...
News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| 9 months ago
A few dozen Christians, residents of the Galilee, held a protest against Lior Shlein's late night talk show, in which they claim he derogated their religion. A number of priests were also present. In the program, Shlein sarcastically denied...