Category: Middle East
Posted in Middle East
As Covid-19 spreads, not all Holy Land sites open
JERUSALEM (CNS): On March 6, CNN reported that the Israeli authorities and the Palestinian Authority…
Human misery in northern Syria say Franciscan friars
AMMAN (CNS): Syrian government forces and Russian warplanes are bombing Idlib province, while tens of…
Posted in Middle East
Trump’s peace plan adds fuel to fire Holy Land Catholic leaders say
JERUSALEM (CNS): The Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land in the Holy…
Deep anxieties after US drone strike assassination
“I think tensions have reached a level never seen before, and this is worrying and further complicates the situation in the region, which truly appears to be intensely heated.”
Church leaders in Lebanon solidarity with protesters
BEIRUT (CNS): Amid an unprecedented, massive uprising of the Lebanese population demanding a sweeping overhaul…
Caritas helping people displaced by Turkish attacks in Syria
AMMAN (CNS): Church bells have been ringing in Qamishli and elsewhere in northeastern Syria, signalling…
Patriarch pleads for peace in northeastern Syria
ROME (CNS): Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan of the Syriac Catholic Church pleaded for “immediate…
