For Gaza priest, a forgotten people sees hope in war to receive aid
Fr Mario da Silva, from Brazil, heads the Strip’s only Latin parish of the Holy Family. Young people are jobless, seniors have no pensions, and everyone wants to escape. The
HCEF Commits to Support Vulnerable Communities across the Holy Land
On Monday, January 30th, 2017, The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF), The Pontifical Mission for Palestine (PMP), and The Applied Research Institute, Jerusalem (ARIJ) signed an agreement with nine
The Child in the Manger and the War in Syria
How will Christmas 2016 be in the Middle East? Two Christians, one refugee mother in Lebanon and one pastor in Qamishli in northeast Syria, tell how difficult the message of
Christmas 2016 : Greetings from the Custos of the Holy Land
In the Psalm that Saint Francis composed for the celebration of Christmas he reminds us that: “the Most Holy Child has been given to us, and has been born for
Christmas Press Conference at Latin Patriarchate 2016
I would like to thank you for your presence here today at the Latin Patriarchate, and on behalf of the Universal Church, I wish you a Christmas full of blessings,
BSCC and the Latin Patriarchate Celebrate Christmas with Birzeit Elders
The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF) organized a Christmas dinner in honor of the Birzeit Senior Citizen Center (BSCC) on Sunday, December 18th. The event was coordinated under the
Chaldean Patriarch visits the liberated towns of the Nineveh Plain: “It is our Holy Land”
Qaraqosh - His Beatitude Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako with his auxiliary Bishop Basileo Salim Yado visited the five Christian towns of the Nineveh Plain already released in the concerted
Archbishop Pizzaballa: “Church in the Holy Land has no means nor power. She only has Christ and His Grace”
HOLY LAND – Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate, explains the episcopal motto “Sufficit tibi gratia mea” (2 Cor 12:9) he has chosen for his Episcopal Ordination
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Urges End to US Aid to Israel Until Settlement Construction Ends
Isaiah 58, a group of Lutherans working for peace and justice in the Holy Land, welcomes today’s overwhelming approval by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) of a resolution
HOLY LAND – Palestine’s Scout movement one of the oldest reinvigorated
Ramallah – After a long period of suspension of contact with analogous groups and networks at the global level, the Scout Movement in Palestine, re-connects with its long history taking