Want a sense of where Israel is right now? The most prestigious writer's festival in the country invited JM Coetzee (Coetzee!) to be its plenary speaker. When he replied with a brusque "no", the festival director wrote him a ridiculous and deceitful rebuke, then published it.
Christians in Jerusalem were not surprised by the attack on a nun last week — abuse has become routine.
Fr. Olivier Catel: “We never paid attention because they were isolated incidents, but for the past three or four years, it has become something of a daily occurrence."
Ayer tuvimos la alegría de visitar el mar junto a un grupo de hombres de la parroquia de la Sagrada Familia de Gaza. Un momento sencillo, pero profundamente significativo, que nos permitió compartir, descansar y renovar el ánimo en medio de tantas pruebas.
Photos of the Catholic convent run by the Sisters of the Holy Savior in the town of Yaroun in southern Lebanese after it was demolished by the Israeli army.
Israel is planning to renew the offensive in Gaza and finish the genocide. A debate on the matter will be held in the Israeli cabinet tomorrow. I am terrified for my friends in Gaza.
@hookskat@Itisfinished0 To my mind atheism means non-belief in a personal God. This does not preclude assent to some form of awareness that may be the first principle of all of existence.
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published a report on Christian persecution in Israel and the West Bank.
"The spitting and humiliation [of Christians] are daily. People are afraid to walk in Jerusalem with Christian symbols."
Israeli police released video Thursday of a man kicking a 48-year-old French nun on Mount Zion. The Latin Patriarchate is calling it a “repulsive and barbaric hate crime.”
This comes a week after Israeli soldiers were caught beating an icon of the crucified Christ down to the ground with a sledgehammer.
These are not the first attacks on Catholics or sacred spaces in or by Israel this year.
Pope Leo XIV is calling for an end to the violence. https://t.co/3DRoKtWdoC
Three months ago, Israeli settlers brutally assaulted Najat Emil Jadallah, a 62-year-old Palestinian Christian woman from the town of Birzeit in the West Bank.
Not one settler was arrested. Instead, the Israeli army arrested her sons.
En el corazón de Gaza, el barrio cristiano sigue siendo un pequeño faro de fe y esperanza, donde nuestras familias perseveran con sencillez, sosteniéndose unos a otros en medio de tantas dificultades.
Hoy, como cada viernes, nos reunimos en la capilla para adorar al Señor, rezar el Santo Rosario y celebrar la Santa Misa. En la Eucaristía encontramos la fuerza para continuar, la paz que el mundo no puede dar y la certeza de que Cristo permanece con nosotros.