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Families now rely on whatever remnants they stored during brief ceasefires Photo: AP

Holy Land•Local Church•Persecuted Christians

The Jewish State of Israel Bombs Catholic Church in Gaza: Parish Priest Wounded, Pope Leo XIV Speaks Out

The victims were not combatants. They were not even passersby. They were people taking refuge in a compound they believed to be safe. Elderly women sitting in a Caritas Jerusalem psychosocial support tent, young people in the inner courtyard, entire families who, after losing their homes, had found a last refuge in the Church.

Holy Land•Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

“There is no future for you here”: the harassment of Jewish settlers against Christians in the Holy Land (and the response of Christian leaders)

On July 14, in an unprecedented show of ecumenical solidarity, patriarchs and bishops from across the Christian world—Latin, Orthodox, Armenian, Melkite, Lutheran, Anglican, and Franciscan—walked side by side through the streets of Taybeh. They came not only to pray but to make a statement: that the Christians of this land, rooted here since apostolic times, are not alone.

Holy Land•Persecuted Christians

Fires set by Jewish settlers threaten the town of Taybeh, the only completely Christian town in the world

Tuesday, July 8, Israeli settlers set several fires near the town cemetery and the ancient 5th-century Church of St. George, threatening one of the oldest religious sites in Palestine. This was reported by priests Daoud Khoury, Jacques-Noble Abed, and Bashar Fawdeh, who oversee the three Christian communities of Taybeh (and thus the Greek Orthodox, Latin Catholic, and Greek Melkite believers).