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MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE 56th WORLD DAY OF PEACE
Jordan Will the Patriarchate of Jerusalem have a permanent cardinality in the future?

By Alfred Asfour/en.abouna.org: Cardinals in the Catholic Church are princes of the church, and in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, the rank of cardinals comes directly after the rank of the Supreme Pontiff, and he is the one who grants them this rank according to qualities and specifications that he knows and determines.   A cardinal in the Church has duties and powers that bishops who do not hold this rank do not have. The most important and dangerous task of the car ...more

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Fr. Dr. Rif’at Bader : “The Internet is not our enemy,” said Belgian journalist Florence Hainaut who ...more

Pope Francis arrives in Mongolia
Repressed Nicaraguan students may lose their university degree
Pakistani Christians to their ambassador to Italy: "Those responsible must be punished"
Pope Francis is writing a second part of his encyclical Laudato si'
"Some people at the Central American University (UCA) have even had their accounts frozen"
Cardinal Parolin: The possibility of a future papal trip to Angola has been discussed
St. Helena: the roots of Jesus' relics in Rome
Jesuits respond to Nicaraguan government seizing university property
Why is Cardinal Parolin in Africa?
Church initiatives care for children displaced by war in Ukraine
World
Francis Pope in Marseille: Make the Mediterranean a laboratory of peace in the world

Lisa Zengarini/ vaticannews.va: The Mediterranean is a “mirror of the world” and “bears within itself a global vocation to fraternity, the only way to prevent and overcome conflict ...more

Arab World
Iraq Cardinal Sako appeals for Vatican support as he seeks to regain formal recognition in Iraq

Dale Gavlak/ OSV News: Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Cardinal Louis Sako said he would like more Vatican support as he tries to regain formal recognition as the Chaldean ...more

Holy Land
Palestine Launch of the second Educational Conference of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem schools
lpj.org : On Thursday, September 21, at the Arab American University in Jenin, the Holy Land, second Educational Conference of the Latin Patriarchate schools ...more
On the eve of the red biretta, Pizzaballa: “I will be a voice of Jerusalem”
Cardinal-elect Pizzaballa: Jerusalem is the heart of the world
King Abdullah addresses the plenary session of the 78th UN General Assembly
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Fr. Dr. Rif’at Bader

The Titanic… a reflection on the 21st century events

 Munir Bayouk/ en.abouna.org

The Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross… a reminiscent of Divine will to save humanity

 By Munir Bayouk/ en.abouna.org

The anniversary of the Nativity of Blessed Mary marks the rebirth of mercy

 Munir Bayouk/ en.abouna.org

Ten years have elapsed since the convening of the “Challenges Facing Middle East Christians Conference”

By Fr. Dr. Rif’at Bader