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From Bossley Park to Baghdad
5+ hour, 45+ min ago (588+ words) And then, accompanied by unending applause, a rolling chorus of Alleluias, and piercing ululation, the serene and smiling man whom the faithful of the St Thomas the Apostle Chaldean & Assyrian Catholic Diocese of Australia and New Zealand had been waiting…...
Investigation into soldier who destroyed Jesus statue
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (192+ words) Catholic'leaders in the Holy Land expressed their "unreserved condemnation" after a picture of an Israeli soldier striking the head of a statue of Jesus in Debel, a Christian village in southern Lebanon, went viral on social media 19 April. In a…...
When religion is invoked to bless war, something has gone wrong
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (733+ words) If you can kill a disbelieving American or European " especially the spiteful and filthy French " or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a…...
ACN launches Holy Week appeal for Christians in the Holy Land
2+ week, 1+ day ago (420+ words) Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Australia and New Zealand has launched an emergency appeal to support Christian communities in the Holy Land and across the Middle East, as conflict and displacement intensify during Holy Week. The pontifical charity…...
Gaza Christians mark Palm Sunday with hope amid ongoing hardships
3+ week, 2+ day ago (477+ words) In an unexpected sign of hope in the Holy Land, Gaza City Christians of Holy Family Parish were able to celebrate Mass with the blessing of palms and a procession for Palm Sunday 29 March. The event garnered an unexpectedly large…...
Jerusalem Church leaders decry escalating war, urge peace efforts amid 'deep darkness"
3+ week, 3+ day ago (771+ words) On the threshold of Holy Week and amid the US and Israel-Iran war gaining new fronts, and harvesting new victims daily, the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem issued an annual Easter message, calling the war an "expanding…...
Israeli police prevent Latin patriarch, custos, from entering Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday
3+ week, 3+ day ago (182+ words) The Catholic Weekly Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and Franciscan Father Francesco Ielpo, the custos of the Holy Land, were blocked by Israeli police from entering Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday, marking what…...
As Lent ends, Lebanon begins its Calvary
4+ week, 2+ day ago (879+ words) After the influx of 1. 5 million refugees from the Syrian civil war, the collapse of its currency, national bankruptcy, hyperinflation, and the Beirut port explosion, assassinations, and constant tit-for-tat cross-border bombardment, the scourge of war is returning to Lebanon Israel is…...
Exiled Iranian Christians watch with hope and fear
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (225+ words) Exiled Iranian Christians say they are watching the latest turmoil in their homeland with deep anxiety. The concern follows US and Israeli strikes on Iran and the reported 28 February death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which triggered retaliatory attacks…...
Israel bans dozens of aid groups from Gaza, including Caritas, drawing condemnation
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (400+ words) Caritas Internationalis and Caritas Jerusalem are among the 37 international aid organisations that Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs has banned from operating in Gaza by 1 March. According to the ministry, the organisations' licenses have been revoked as of 1 January for failing…...