Date of source: Monday, September 29, 2025
The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, in which he accused Muslim Palestinians of causing the emigration of Christians and claimed that Israel is the true protector of Christianity.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 23, 2025
According to some New Testament accounts (cf. Matthew 2), when a group of wise men from the East declared Jesus to be the next Jewish king, King Herod of Judea decided to pursue him to prevent this. An angel warned Joseph to leave Bethlehem and flee to Egypt with the Virgin Mary and Jesus....
Date of source: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Participants in the conference "The Church at the Crossroads 2025," held in the USA, issued a public document in which they expressed their response to the calls of Palestinian Christians to confront the war on Gaza. The statement was both a theological review and a humanitarian stance calling for...
Date of source: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Mrs. Lina Musharbash, president of the Levant Christians Association in Jordan, stated to Milḥ al-Arḍ (Salt of the Earth) that the Association is in the process of organizing an international conference on religious tourism under the preliminary title "Jordan: Rooted Christianity and an Enduring...
Date of source: Saturday, September 13, 2025
The leadership of the Coptic Orthodox Church asserts greater accuracy in determining the number of Copts in Egypt than the official state authority, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), or national demographic surveys. Their claim rests on the argument that local...
Date of source: Saturday, September 6, 2025
On Saturday, September 6, the Saint Catherine Monastery, located in the South Sinai governorate, received hundreds of tourists and visitors after a 16-day hiatus.
Date of source: Saturday, September 6, 2025
By Friday evening, September 5, the crisis at Saint Catherine’s Monastery had entered its decisive stages, as the scene turned into a series of rapid developments that preceded Metropolitan Damyānūs’ departure for Athens.
Date of source: Sunday, September 7, 2025
The Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, stated regarding the difficult situation in the Church of the Holy Family—similar to the situation in all of Gaza, where hundreds of people have taken refuge since the outbreak of the war—that there is great concern for them,...
Date of source: Saturday, February 3, 2018
On Saturday, Christians held their first Mass in the damaged Syriac Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in the city of Deīr ez-Zūr, eastern Syria, after years of interruption caused by battles and the presence of the Islamic State group.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 20, 2025
On Tuesday, August 19, 2025, Bethlehem Bible College welcomed Dr. Ḥusām Zumluṭ, the Palestinian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, on a consultative visit. He was received by the college president, Rev. Dr. Jack Sara, along with several faculty members, as well as national and religious figures.