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Stained glass window of the Sacred Heart (San Gioacchino in Prati, Rome. © Photo ZENIT cc).

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Syria: Christians return to Ghassaniyah

Christian families are returning to the village in the Orontes Valley to claim their homes and lands 14 years after it was occupied by armed Islamists, who killed Fr François Mourad. For Father Ielpo, custos of the Holy Land, every true reconstruction is based “on the strength of faith, and of the power of forgiveness”.

Local Church•Religious Freedom

Spain’s anti-clerical government presents winning project to redefine the Valley of the Fallen from the left

For the anticlerical government of Pedro Sánchez, the “resignification” project is framed as an act of democratic renewal, a way of transforming a space long associated with Francoist triumphalism into one of inclusivity and plural memory. For critics, it represents a politically motivated desecration—a rewriting of history at the expense of faith, art, and cultural continuity