Church defies Israeli ban, performs Muslim call to prayer

TEL AVIV: In reaction to the Israeli authorities’ unjustifiable ban on the call to prayers in occupied Jerusalem, Muslim residents of the city made the adhan (call to prayer), in unison, from the rooftops of their houses.

Videos documenting the incident went viral in social media throughout the entire Islamic world, stirring praise for the initiative and scorn for the continuous Israeli restrictions on religious freedom.

In a defiant show of solidarity against the Israeli decision to the unreasonable ban, a Christian church in the city of Nazareth made the unprecedented decision to send out the Islamic call to prayer from within its own walls. The powerful gesture of support stirred a massive wave of admiration in the Muslim world, which saw it as the epitome of the long-standing history of support and compassion between Muslims and Christians in Palestine