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Palestine Holy Land increasingly emptied of Christians: “People leave because they don’t see a future”

Maria Lozano/ aidtochurch.org: In an address to representatives of Aid to the Church in Need, Benedictine Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel offered a stark and personal account of the fragile and rapidly shrinking Christian presence in the Holy Land. The image of Jerusalem as a vibrant heart of Christianity contrasts sharply with the reality experienced today by the faithful. In a powerful address to the national directors and representatives of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Be ...more

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Building Bridges with the Islamic world

By Fr. Dr. Rif’at Bader : Pope Leo XIV has summed up his apostolic journey to Africa, at the outset of which ...more

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