People gather at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family on Palm Sunday in al-Zaitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on March 24, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. / Credit: AFP via Getty Images
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The faithful take part in the Divine Liturgy at Our Lady of the Olive Church in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, June 29, 2025. / Credit: Mohammad Al-Rifai/ACI MENA
ACI MENA, Jun 30, 2025 / 14:56 pm (CNA).
A week after the deadly attack on Mar Elias… […]
The view of the West Bank and Israel from Mount Nebo. / Credit: quantestorie via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
ACI MENA, Jun 26, 2025 / 17:02 pm (CNA).
In a disturbing and increasingly frequent pattern, the Palestinian town of Taybeh, located east of R… […]
Father Francesco Ielpo, a Franciscan friar, on June 24, 2025, was appointed the new custos of the Holy Land and guardian of Mount Zion. Previously, since 2022, he was president of the Holy Land Foundation in addition to holding other organizatio… […]
Mourners gather at the Church of the Holy Cross in Qassaa, Damascus, on June 24, 2025, around white caskets of some of the worshippers who lost their lives in a terrorist attack at the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighborhood of Syria’s capit… […]
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, in an interview with ACI MENA, CNA’s Arabic-language news partner, emphasized that the Catholic Church in the Holy Land must remain “open”: “The Church must remain open and acce… […]
An attack on Mar Elias Church in Al-Duwaileh, Damascus, by a suicide bomber reportedly killed 22 and injured 59 people on June 22, 2025. / Credit: Mohammed Al-Rifai/ACI MENA
ACI MENA, Jun 23, 2025 / 12:06 pm (CNA).
The death toll from the attac… […]
Despite being Yazidi, a religious minority that has suffered persecution in Iraq, Wael Jejo Khdeida, along with his wife, tends to Mar Odisho Church in northern Iraq without pay and treats it as sacred. / Credit: Ismail Adnan/ACI MENA
ACI MENA,… […]
The Catholic bishops in Nigeria’s Onitsha ecclesiastical province have condemned recent attacks in Benue state that reportedly resulted in the death of some 200 people and called for fasting and prayer in honor of the victims. / Credit: Nigeria … […]
Cameron Mumford on pilgrimage in Jerusalem. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Cameron Mumford
Rome Newsroom, Jun 19, 2025 / 11:06 am (CNA).
Cameron Mumford came to Jerusalem on a solo Catholic pilgrimage to retrace the steps of Christ. By the end of … […]
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