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Israeli police arrest man for throwing firebomb inside Catholic church

Dec 4, 2020

Israeli police arrested a Jewish man after he allegedly threw a firebomb inside the Basilica of All Nations at Gethsemane Church on the Mount of Olives Dec. 4.

By Judith Sudilovsky

New patriarch of Jerusalem says he must listen a lot, pray a lot

Dec 2, 2020

When Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa makes his first entrance into the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as patriarch, he will continue the balancing act of representing everyone in the Holy Land.

By Judith Sudilovsky

Pandemic leads multicultural parish in Israel to unite in faith

Nov 10, 2020

On the Friday before All Saints’ Day, some of Arabic members of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Jaffa drove to the parish cemetery to celebrate Mass in a recently donated open-air chapel.

By Judith Sudilovsky

Vatican applauds ‘Abraham Accords’ but fears ‘isolation’ of Palestinians

Oct 8, 2020

Archbishop Paul Gallagher also suggested the Vatican would be willing to reconsider its long-standing insistence on a two-state solution for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict should all parties converge on some other outcome that’s both just and fair.

By John L. Allen Jr.

New study says literacy widespread among ancient Israelites

Sep 24, 2020

A new study says the rates of literacy among ancient Israelites might be far higher than previously suspected.

By Crux Staff

Explaining the Vatican’s silence on the ‘Abraham Accords’

Sep 22, 2020

The Vatican typically abhors being dragged into partisan domestic debates, doing everything in its power to avoid them, and it’s a special idée fixe of Pope Francis.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Abraham Accords called ‘truly historic milestone’ in Middle East peace

Sep 17, 2020

A Catholic congressman who is a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee called the Middle East peace accord signed Sept. 15 at the White House a “momentous pact” he hopes “is the beginning of several future peace accords to strengthen peace within the region.”

By Catholic News Service

U.S. evangelicals get Israeli visas; Catholics want equal treatment

Sep 15, 2020

Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed astonishment that a large group of evangelical Christians from the U.S. received visas to come to Israel to help with the grape harvest in West Bank settlements, while Catholic institutions have not been able to obtain Israeli visas for their volunteers and staff members because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Judith Sudilovsky