This was the 100th birthday of an Arab Catholic nun in the Holy Land

Mar 25, 2025 19:57

The gathering was filled with warmth and joy as attendees sang "Happy Birthday" in English and Arabic Photo: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Holy Land•Interview•Justice and Peace•Religious Freedom

Israeli Jesuit David Neuhaus: the plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza feels like a kick in the stomach

Israeli Jesuit and professor of Sacred Scripture, David Neuhaus was born in South Africa to German-Jewish parents who fled Germany in the 1930s, he was also in the past Patriarchal Vicar for the Hebrew-speaking Catholics and for the Pastoral Among Migrants.

Feb 13, 2025 18:03

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land•Interview

“Christians Are the Innocent Victims of the War Between Israel and Hezbollah”

Despite the extension until February 18 of the truce between Hezbollah and Israel, in Lebanon there is “indescribable devastation” and “the forecasts for the near future are not promising.” And Christians are the first victims of the conflict. The Everyday Compass has interviewed Father Abdo Raad, a Lebanese Melkite, to talk about all this.

Feb 10, 2025 15:32

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land•Justice and Peace

Sister Nabila: Trump’s (and Netanyahu’s) plan for Gaza is ‘unimaginable’

The Rosary Sisters nun who shared life with Gazans under Hamas rule as well as the suffering of war spoke to AsiaNews about the US president’s statement in favour of expelling Palestinians from Gaza to turn it into a “Riviera” of the Middle East. For her, Palestinians must be able to live on their own land; otherwise, it would be “like telling the American people to abandon their land”.

Feb 09, 2025 21:51

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land

Pilgrims in the Holy Land: a book to accompany the faith in the Jubilee Period

Details of the collaborating authors are below as well as a link to purchase the book on Amazon.

Feb 02, 2025 16:34

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land•Local Church

Syria: Muslim Jihadists Assure They Will Not Go Against Christians

Given the former relations with Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, there is mistrust of the leaders now governing Syria. After a meeting with some of them, Monsignor Audo concluded: “We were all present: Bishops, Priests and Religious. The meeting was very positive.”

Dec 17, 2024 07:43

Rafael Llanes

Reflections of Pope Leo XIV on the art of Christian education

Address of the Pope to participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life

Pope Leo XIV Opens the Vatican Doors to the Only Orthodox Apostolate Accompanying Homosexual People to Live in Chastity

Members of Courage are men and women who experience same-sex attraction and who, inspired by the Gospel’s call to holiness and the Church’s beautiful teachings on the good and end of human sexuality, have freely chosen to live in chastity.

This was the 100th birthday of an Arab Catholic nun in the Holy Land

Israeli Defense Forces close center for disabled children in Palestine

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

Gaza’s population rejects Hamas’ continued rule of the strip, poll shows

New film documents 2000 year history of Christianity in Palestine

Israel: ‘Netanyahu against NGOs, deadly attack on Israeli society’

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

Israeli Jesuit David Neuhaus: the plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza feels like a kick in the stomach

“Christians Are the Innocent Victims of the War Between Israel and Hezbollah”

Sister Nabila: Trump’s (and Netanyahu’s) plan for Gaza is ‘unimaginable’

Pilgrims in the Holy Land: a book to accompany the faith in the Jubilee Period

Syria: Muslim Jihadists Assure They Will Not Go Against Christians