The only ones in the holy city to produce altar bread hosts are the sisters of Our Lady of the Pillar. Nine women of different nationalities have carried out this mission for 70 years. The Eucharist is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church. It was established by Jesus' words: heaven. Whoever eats this [...]
AMMAN, Jordan (CNS) -- A famed Italian Catholic cathedral organist is believed to have been the first Western musician to perform in Syria since the start of the civil war nearly six years ago. "It has been awesome. It was something unbelievable," Eugenio Maria Fagiani told Catholic News Service by phone of his recent performances in [...]
Over 100 pilgrims from the American Dynamic Catholic Institute came on pilgrimage to the Holy Land to return to the roots of their faith. he pilgrimage to the Holy Land can be an experience of beauty and of absolutely unexpected intensity. The firsthand connection with the holy places combined with the reading of the Gospel enliven [...]
Present in the Holy Land with a small community, but with some 18 million faithful in the world - almost all in Egypt - the Coptic Orthodox Church is the portion of the Church of Alexandria in Egypt that separated from the Byzantine Church in the wake of the Council of Chalcedon in 451.