Holy Land

Christians of Holy Family Parish were able to celebrate Mass with the blessing of palms and a procession for Palm Sunday.

The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem issued an Easter message calling the Iran war an “expanding wreckage” and its timing a “deep darkness.”

At his first Palm Sunday, Pope Leo XIV declared that Jesus, the King of Peace, embraces all suffering in human history and cries out from the cross against war.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and Father Francesco Ielpo, the custos of the Holy Land, were prevented from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulcher by Israeli …

“I’m just very careful. We have to be realistic because we’ve learned that this country is never going to have a good, steady, peaceful time.”

(OSV News) — Since 2022, there has been a steady flow of harrowing images and videos of killings, war and destruction from the Holy Land, beginning with the Oct. 7, …

Those who espouse Christian Zionism “wound the unity of the faithful and burden the pastoral mission entrusted to the historic churches” in the Holy Land.

Pope Leo spoke to members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See in the Vatican Apostolic Palace Jan. 9.

Now “is clearly the time to embark upon the very long pathway of healing and reconciliation that is so profoundly needed between Palestinians and Israelis.”

Christian leaders in the Holy Land are pushing back against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Sept. 26 speech at the United Nations