On January 17, in the city of Nazareth, a mass was celebrated in memory of Saint Anthony. The Egyptian saint of the fourth century was a pioneer of the monastic life. On January 17, on the feast of St. Anthony the Great, in Nazareth, in a seventeenth century church dedicated to him, a solemn Mass was [...]
The volunteer program that a group of young Palestinians developed three years ago in Ramallah to help their community. Driven by the desire to give, the humanitarian project 'Qawarib' (in Arabic: 'boats'), sails tirelessly, to ferry the needy from one shore of poverty to the other. The heart of the program is a first assistance center [...]
TENT OF NATIONS, West Bank (CNS) -- Bishops from Europe and North America lauded this 100-year-old hilltop family farm southwest of Bethlehem as an example of the nonviolent resistance needed to oppose Israeli expansion onto Palestinian land. "This farm is what we want to encourage -- a peaceful resistance ... a moral voice to the international [...]
The celebration of the miracle of the wedding feast at Cana, in the small village of Galilee. A feast for Catholics and for the couples who are renewing their wedding vows. The determined and hopeful words of the Virgin Mary resonate in the Catholic Church at Cana, a small village in Galilee. Here, as recounted in [...]
