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In early April 2024, a number of Ahli Hospital’s dedicated doctors and staff who were displaced by IDF operations in Gaza City late last year demonstrated their resilience by establishing an outreach clinic in Rafah, a city heavily populated with refugees and located in the southernmost region of the Gaza Strip. Rafah, now sheltering 1.4 million Gazans, has become home

  The Patriarchate of Jerusalem publishes for the knowledge of pilgrims the opinion of the Architect of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Mr Theodosios Mitropoulos, and the Architect of the Franciscan Brotherhood, Mr Nagib Naser, regarding the number of pilgrims who may enter the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for the Ceremony of the Holy Light.     By:jerusalem-patriarchate

For the past six months, George Antone, Caritas Jerusalem Administrative Manager in Gaza, along with his wife Nisreen and their three children, has called the compound of the only Catholic church in Gaza home. Their journey is one of resilience amongst the backdrop of fear and desperation. As the conflict escalated in October 2023, Antone and his family made the difficult

During winter time, birds migrate en masse from cold areas to warm locations in the world seeking warmth, as well as looking for sources of food and peace. This also applies to human beings as over the past decades huge masses of people in the Middle East have opted to migrate from one country to  another, and in some cases

 If you want to see Hell - said the Syrian Bishop Jacques Mourad at the beginning of the last war in Gaza - today you have to go to the Holy Land, where the massacres of innocents have turned into extermination. Christians in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel suffer with their companions on the path and destiny belonging to

The Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury has called for the release of a young Christian woman who was arrested on April 9 by Israeli forces in the West Bank. In a message on X (formerly Twitter) The Archbishop wrote: “I’m shocked and deeply concerned by this news. Together with our Palestinian Christian brothers and sisters, I pray for Layan and her

In an interview with the Vatican's Fides news agency, Father Ibrahim Faltas, the Vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, highlighted many of the challenges faced by Christian communities in the Holy Land, in light of the ongoing war in Gaza. Fr. Faltas began by emphasising the severity of the situation, quoting Pope Francis, who has often said that

In a message marking the end of Ramadan, the month observed by Muslims as one of fasting, prayer, reflection and community, Pope Francis shared his distress for the ongoing war in Israel and Palestine and the violence in Syria, Lebanon and throughout the region, reiterating his belief that “war is always and only a failure: a road leading nowhere" that

Pope Francis made a heartfelt appeal on Sunday following the Regina Coeli, when he called for a stop to any actions that may fuel the "spiral of violence" in the Middle East that risk plunging the region into an even wider war. The Pope said he is following with "prayer and concern, even sorrow" the news arriving in recent hours

The Custody of the Holy Land has again organized an Iftar this year with the local Muslim community in Bethany. This is the meal which is eaten after sunset, to break the daily fast of Ramadan. On Wednesday, April 3, the Custos of the Holy Land, fra Francesco Patton, with the Vicar, fra Ibrahim Faltas, and the friars of the community of Bethany, welcomed the civil