Church in Latin America keeps faith alive during coronavirus lockdown
- Jul 7, 2020
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Holy Land Franciscans to observe popular St. Anthony novena, feast online
- Jun 7, 2020
The June 13 feast of St. Anthony of Padua and the novena, the nine days of prayer leading up to it, mark some of the busiest times at Washington’s Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America — and any temple worldwide, for that matter, that observes his feast.
Church of the Holy Sepulcher set to re-open on Sunday
- May 23, 2020
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem will open on Sunday for the first time in two months.
Church leaders oppose Israeli plans to annex unilaterally West Bank land
- May 12, 2020
Moving forward with an Israeli plan to unilaterally annex West Bank land could mean the end to the already languishing Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, said the heads of the Holy Land churches.
Jerusalem’s Palm Sunday march scaled back due to coronavirus
- Apr 5, 2020
A small group of Franciscan monks and Catholic faithful took to the streets of Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter in the Old City Sunday to distribute olive branches after the traditional Palm Sunday procession was cancelled due to restrictions imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Pope moves Good Friday collection for Holy Land to September
- Apr 2, 2020
With Holy Week celebrations closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis postponed the traditional Good Friday collection for the Holy Land to September.
First U.S. clergy fatality from COVID-19 a deacon in Washington
- Mar 25, 2020
A Franciscan friar who was on his way to join a new religious community in New York became Washington’s first COVID-19 fatality March 20 and the first known U.S. Catholic cleric to die after contracting the coronavirus.
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