Tag: Holy Land

Pope Leo XIV on July 26 renewed his urgent appeals for peace in the Holy Land and across the Middle East during his Angelus...

An Israeli soldier has been sentenced to 21 days of military detention for placing a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the...

Outrage has grown as a photo surfaced of an Israeli soldier desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary in Lebanon. Concerns are mounting about...

Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed their "unreserved condemnation" after a picture of an Israeli soldier striking the head of a statue of...

As the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity unfolded, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches of the Holy Land warned that Christian Zionism was...

PLYMOUTH, Mich. -- Since the October ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war, people in Palestine are living in abject ruin, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa said at...

The chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace told OSV News he was heartened by a United...

JERUSALEM -- In the Gaza Strip, the fragile calm following the Oct. 13 Israel-Hamas peace deal has brought little relief to the enclave's small...

BALTIMORE -- Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore and leaders of the Knights of Columbus and Catholic Near East Welfare Association visited Jerusalem, the...

JERUSALEM -- The Holy Land's sacred sites overflow with tourists in normal times, but with war in Gaza, most airlines have canceled flights to...