Amid growing controversy over the Israeli Knesset’s recent approval of a law permitting the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, the Catholic Church in the Holy Land is raising its voice in ...

The Holy Land’s Catholic bishops explained that the synodal process was seeking to renew the Church as it faced ‘so many crises at every level.’ Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa blesses the ...

The controversial Israeli Nation State law must be repealed because non-Jews also are citizens of Israel, said the Catholic ordinaries of the Holy Land. "We, as the religious leaders of the Catholic ...

"Church leaders here asked people from the United States to come and stand in solidarity with their brothers and sisters. That concept of solidarity is central to my faith, to the way that I think ...

The Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023 and the Israeli response to it has “plunged” the Holy Land “into a vortex of violence and hatred never seen or experienced before,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ...

It was noisy outside the White House the afternoon of Nov. 2, All Souls' Day. Tourists milled around as a man wearing a football onesie blasted music. A group of about 60 Catholic protesters gathered, ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Cardinal Fernando Filoni, the grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, stressed that there can be no peace in the Holy Land unless there is justice and the ...

A Benedictine Abbot fears that with Christians declining in the Holy Land the historic quarters will become empty of families ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis and Catholic leaders voiced sorrow and concern over the sudden outbreak of violence in the Holy Land on Saturday and asked for peace and diplomacy to be restored in ...