Bishops: Despite meeting online, they can show solidarity with Holy Land
- Jan 20, 2021
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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