Tag: Israel
As pilgrims pray, Israeli families mourn loved ones and Gaza undergoes...
JERUSALEM -- Pilgrims who were in Israel following a surprise terrorist attack by Hamas terrorists against civilian communities in southern Israel Oct. 7 lit...
After cease fire, Pope Francis calls for prayers for forgiveness, coexistence...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has called on the world's Catholics to pray May 22 for dialogue, forgiveness and peaceful coexistence in the Holy...
U.S. Bishops call on Israelis and Palestinians to end the violence...
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace called on Israelis and Palestinians to end the violence in...
Arson attempt at Basilica of All Nations at Gethsemane Church in...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli police arrested a Jewish man after he allegedly threw a firebomb inside the Basilica of All Nations at Gethsemane Church on...
Evangelicals get visas to go to Israel, but Catholics left out,...
JERUSALEM — Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed astonishment that a large group of evangelical Christians from the U.S. received visas to come...
Vatican’s top diplomat meets about Mideast with U.S., Israeli ambassadors
VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, met with the U.S. and Israeli ambassadors to the Vatican to express concern that...
Holy Land Catholic leaders: Trump peace plan needed Palestinian input
JERUSALEM — Calling U.S. President Donald Trump’s Peace-to-Prosperity plan a “unilateral initiative,” church leaders in the Holy Land said it did not give “dignity...
Foreign spouses of West Bank residents in constant state of limbo
BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- What was meant to be one of the happiest of occasions for the Zoughbi family became a nightmare because of...
Far from home, Israel’s foreign workers visit pop-up Christmas market
TEL AVIV, Israel (CNS) -- For foreign workers and other nonlocal Christians living in Israel, celebrating Christmas far from loved ones in a country...
Catholic workers say U.S. aid cuts to Palestinians could be disastrous
JERUSALEM (CNS) -- The U.S. budgetary cuts to humanitarian aid institutions helping Palestinians could lead to long-term disastrous consequences, said Catholic aid workers in...