Holy Land Archives

Jerusalem archbishop requests weekend Mass collections go to Gaza

May 26, 2021

Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, requested that the May 30 Mass collections from all parishes in the diocese be donated in their entirety to Gaza’s Holy Family Parish as a sign of solidarity following airstrikes from Israel.

By Catholic News Service

Israel’s Jewish-Arab cities, symbols of coexistence, face growing unrest

May 14, 2021

As Israel escalated its assault on Gaza May 14, the nation also faced growing civil unrest in its mixed Jewish-Arab cities, considered a symbol coexistence.

By Judith Sudilovsky

U.S. bishop urges end of Holy Land violence between Israelis, Palestinians

May 14, 2021

The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace called on Israelis and Palestinians to end the violence in Jerusalem and Gaza that has claimed dozens of lives and left hundreds of people injured.

By Catholic News Service

Christian leaders in Jerusalem express concern over growing violence

May 10, 2021

The patriarchs and heads of Christian churches of Jerusalem expressed deep concern over the growing violence in Jerusalem, which increased with 331 Palestinians reportedly wounded at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during clashes with Israeli police May 10.

By Catholic News Service

In tense Jerusalem, flag-waving Israeli march to go ahead

May 9, 2021

Police on Sunday gave the go-ahead to the annual Jerusalem Day parade, a flag-waving display of Israeli claims to all of the contested city, despite days of unrest and soaring Israeli-Palestinian tensions at a flashpoint holy site.

By Ilan Ben Zion

Cardinal sees Holy Land pilgrimages as time for prayer and relationships

May 2, 2021

The grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem really hopes that the improving COVID-19 situation will finally allow him to make his first official pilgrimage to the Holy Land as head of the benevolent order.

By Cindy Wooden

‘We are all brothers,’ Franciscan in Jericho says of iftar gifts

Apr 28, 2021

As his Muslim neighbors and fellow Jericho residents make their way home for the iftar, which breaks the daily fast throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Franciscan Father Mario Hadchiti hands out small bags of dates and water to passersby in front of the Franciscan Good Shepherd Church.

By Judith Sudilovsky

In Jaffa, gentrification stokes discord as Arabs pushed out

Apr 28, 2021

Jaffa, the historic port at the core of the greater Tel Aviv metropolis, is home to around 20,000 Arab residents, remnants of the Palestinian population that lived there before Israel’s establishment in 1948. The district has undergone extensive gentrification in recent decades with government encouragement.

By Ilan Ben Zion