Hearing the drumbeat of war and hoping to tamp it down before a wrong decision is made, U.S. Catholic leaders from a number of religious orders and peace and justice organizations call on President Trump and his advisors to listen to the voices of peace and take the path of diplomacy and dialogue. Dr. Martin Luther [...]
It’s one of the cradles of Christianity, but soon there may soon be no faithful left to rock it. A study by Aid to the Church in Need, a Catholic charity, has found that the Christian population in Syria has fallen from 1.4 million in 2011 to an estimated 450,000, as a result of migration brought [...]
Faced with the conflict in the Middle East and in the world, the Chapel of perpetual worship of the Milk Grotto in Bethlehem is one of the international centers of prayer for peace. View video Silence during adoration can communicate a message. In the chapel of perpetual adoration, prayers have a specific intention: peace and reconciliation [...]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered as the site of Jesus’s crucifixion and burial, reopened on Wednesday after Israel backtracked on Tuesday from a tax plan and draft property legislation that triggered a three-day protest. The rare decision on Sunday by church leaders to close the ancient holy site, a favorite among [...]