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  • Rome remembers celebrated Jesuit missionary kidnapped in Syria

    Rome remembers celebrated Jesuit missionary kidnapped in Syria

    • Feb 14, 2019

    A torchlit rally was held in Rome Wednesday night for Jesuit Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, one of tens of thousands of people who’ve been “disappeared” in Syria since violence broke out in 2011.

    By John L. Allen Jr.
  • Author holds up martyred Copts as model for contemporary Christians

    Author holds up martyred Copts as model for contemporary Christians

    • Feb 13, 2019

    Author Martin Mosebach discusses his new book chronicling the faith of the Coptic martyrs killed by ISIS in 2015.

    By Christopher White
  • Iraqi Christians fear returning home, wary of Shiite militia

    Iraqi Christians fear returning home, wary of Shiite militia

    • Feb 11, 2019

    In the main square in the northern Iraqi town of Bartella stands a large cross, one of the few overt signs the town was historically Christian.

    By Fay Abuelgasim
  • Top Iraqi Catholic says country’s Christians ‘really need’ a papal visit

    Top Iraqi Catholic says country’s Christians ‘really need’ a papal visit

    • Feb 11, 2019

    Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq, says a visit by Pope Francis would offer badly-needed encouragement and hope.

    By Inés San Martín
  • Likelihood of two-state solution in Middle East dimming, say two clergy

    Likelihood of two-state solution in Middle East dimming, say two clergy

    • Feb 6, 2019

    The likelihood that a two-state solution will emerge in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict is narrowing to the point of impossibility, according to two clergy familiar with the situation.

    By Mark Pattison
  • For second time in months, CRS forced to cut funding to Gaza

    For second time in months, CRS forced to cut funding to Gaza

    • Feb 5, 2019

    Catholic Relief Services cut its services to needy people in the Gaza Strip by closing a U.S. government-funded program because of the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act.

    By Judith Sudilovsky
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