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Nicaraguan exiled Bishop Rolando Álvarez Photo: Vatican News

Holy Land•Persecuted Christians

Syrian bishop on situation in the country: calls for presence of UN blue helmets against internal violence and Israeli attacks

After days of violence and more than a thousand dead, including some Christians, the al-Sharaa government has declared the operation against the Alawites on the west coast of the country over. Damascus also signed a merger agreement with the Kurds. For the archbishop of Homs, peace requires an international presence and the end of sanctions. So far, the authorities have not fulfilled their promises.

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Persecuted Christians

After 112 vandalized churches, Canada ends funding for research on Catholic school tombs

The global uproar surrounding unmarked graves began in 2021 when the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation claimed to have discovered 215 burial sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. However, the claim was based solely on ground-penetrating radar scans, which detect soil disturbances but do not confirm the presence of human remains. In the years since, the claim has been revised from “215 graves” to “200 potential burials,” with no excavations providing further clarity.

Holy Land•Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

Christian Leaders Unite Against Jerusalem Municipality’s Move to Seize Armenian Patriarchate Properties

In April 2023, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, noted a sharp increase in such incidents since Netanyahu’s current government took office in December 2022. His coalition, widely described as Israel’s most right-wing government in history, includes ultra-nationalist figures with open hostility toward Christian institutions.