The Maronite (Syro-Maronite Catholic) Patriarch will not be going to Jerusalem to attend Pope Francis’ visit and his encounter with the Ecumenical Patriarch – but as a Church leader with faithful across…
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Jerusalem (AsiaNews) – “Currently, the acts of unrestrained vandalism are poisoning the atmosphere, an atmosphere of coexistence, cooperation, especially now, two weeks before the visit of Pope Francis”: This is what he…
When Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople meet this month in Jerusalem, the buzz probably will be about two milestones from the past: 1054, when Eastern and Western Christianity split, and…
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is pictured at the conclusion of Pope Francis’ inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square in this March 2013 file photo. (CNS/Vatican) Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY…
Here are several prayers being offered by the Catholics of the Holy Land (Israel, Palestine & Jordan) as the day of the pilgrimage to the Holy Places of Pope Francis of Rome…
Vatican City, April 29, 2014 (Zenit.org) The family members of Jesuit Father Paolo dall’Oglio, abducted in Syria, on July 29, 2013, have made an appeal to the global community. “We call on…
Tel Aviv (Agenzia Fides) – On Friday April 11th about ninety Coptic Christians landed in Tel Aviv with the intention of celebrating Holy Week in Jerusalem and in the Christian Holy Places…
Apr-9-2014, By Judith Sudilovsky – Catholic News Service JERSULALEM (CNS) — A Catholic convent near Jerusalem and a largely Maronite village in Galilee were damaged in recent weeks as a two-year wave of…
by Mar Louis Raphael I Sako The wars in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan have made things worse for their peoples, especially minorities. As Western policies have been a failure, fundamentalism has grown…
Pilgrimage of His Holiness Pope Francis in the Holy Land on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the meeting in Jerusalem between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras. (May 24 –…