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ACI MENA, 19 April, 2025 / 7:00 pm (ACI Africa). This year’s Easter celebrations in the Holy Land are expected to unfold under a complex and emotional landscape marked by sorrow and hope as war ...

On Good Friday, the universal Church unites for the traditional Good Friday Collection to support the work of the Franciscans dedicated to supporting and preserving the Christian community and ...

In these nine years I have had the pleasure and privilege of being able to offer you Easter greetings from the very places that recall the Resurrection of Jesus and his first apparitions: the empty ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Flames illuminated the Church of the Holy ...

It has also ignited safety concerns. In 1834 a frenzied stampede broke out in the darkened church, and the ruler of the Holy Land at the time barely escaped after his guards drew swords and ...

Despite the ongoing war in Gaza and heightened tensions in the West Bank and Jerusalem, both Catholic and Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land are resolved to observe Easter, albeit under challenging ...

Bethany Beyond the Jordan was a spiritual experience my lapsed Catholic self was not expecting. It reminded me that whatever your religious constructs, the teachings of Jesus are of kindness, ...

JERUSALEM (OSV News) — Christians in the Holy Land not only have the right but also the duty to celebrate Easter despite all the difficulties and conflicts they are now experiencing, said Cardinal ...

ROME (CNS) -- While pilgrimages to the Holy Land have been few and far between in the past 18 months, hundreds of Franciscan friars celebrate Mass at the sites associated with the life of Jesus each ...