Date of source: Sunday, March 31, 2024
Amidst blockades, devastation, and restrictions aimed at disrupting the lives of Palestinians, Christians in Jerusalem are attending Easter mass amidst a war that has persisted for nearly six months. As the toll of Israeli bombardment echoes alongside church bells, the faithful gather to observe...
Date of source: Monday, April 1, 2024
A senior clergyman in Jerusalem noted that the holy city has always been a significant destination for pilgrims during Easter, but this year, Archbishop William Shomali, the Patriarchal Vicar for Jerusalem and Palestine of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, highlighted a substantial decrease in...
Date of source: Thursday, February 22, 2024
The Palestinian Christian Kairos Palestine initiative delegation met the Secretary-General of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and his accompanying delegation at the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) headquarters in Jerusalem.
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2024
Maḥmūd al-Habbāsh, an advisor to the Palestinian President, Maḥmūd ʿAbbās, and the Palestinian Authority’s Top Sharīʿa Judge and Advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs, condemned the “racist assault” by a group of “terrorist settlers” on a Christian monk in occupied Jerusalem. The assailants had...
Date of source: Thursday, November 2, 2023
Archbishop ʿAṭāllāh Ḥannā of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem appealed to the “powers of good in the world and all spiritual and humanitarian leaders” to have a clear attitude in rejecting aggression and demanding the war in Gaza to stop.
Date of source: Saturday, October 8, 2022
Anba Rāfāʾīl, General Bishop of the Churches of Central Cairo, Bishop of Youth, and Professor of Dogmatic Theology, begins his first pastoral visit to the Coptic church in Jerusalem and the occupied territories.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Fr. Yūwāqīm, Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Isna and Armant, has taken a pastoral visit to the Holy Land. He was accompanied on his journey to Jerusalem by several fathers and priests.
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After the publication of Be Thou There; the Holy Family’s Journey in Egypt (AUC Press, 2001), Cornelis Hulsman organized a number of ‘pilgrimages’ to locations of the Holy Family in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, May 9, 2021
Before their session today, Sunday, the House of Representatives, head by Dr. Ḥanafī Jabālī, released a statement expressing their immense anger and condemnation for the Israeli attack on worshippers in al-Aqṣā Mosque, calling recent actions by the Israeli occupation against Palestinians in...
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This research explores the question as to how Wasatia as an Islamist movement seeks to represen