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Palestine Fr. Faltas describes widespread suffering in Gaza, departure of Christians from Bethlehem

catholicculture.org: A Franciscan friar who oversees 18 schools in the Holy Land described continued widespread suffering in Gaza, four months after the signing of the Gaza peace plan.   In an interview with Radio Cusano Campus, Father Ibrahim Faltas, OFM, also discussed the suffering of Christians in the West Bank.   “Since the truce, about 700 people have been killed, most of them children, the elderly and women,” said  ...more

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“When two periods of fasting coincide”

By Fr. Dr. Rif’at Bader : This year, the blessed month of Ramadan for Muslims coincides with the Lenten Season ...more

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