It’s one of the cradles of Christianity, but soon there may soon be no faithful left to rock it. A study by Aid to the Church in Need, a Catholic charity, has found that the Christian population in Syria has fallen from 1.4 million in 2011 to an estimated 450,000, as a result of migration brought [...]
Faced with the conflict in the Middle East and in the world, the Chapel of perpetual worship of the Milk Grotto in Bethlehem is one of the international centers of prayer for peace. View video Silence during adoration can communicate a message. In the chapel of perpetual adoration, prayers have a specific intention: peace and reconciliation [...]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered as the site of Jesus’s crucifixion and burial, reopened on Wednesday after Israel backtracked on Tuesday from a tax plan and draft property legislation that triggered a three-day protest. The rare decision on Sunday by church leaders to close the ancient holy site, a favorite among [...]
After rare move by heads of churches in Jerusalem in protest of legislation to expropriate church lands, ministers postpone debate on bill In a rare move, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was closed on Sunday until further notice in protest of Israeli government legislation and new city tax policy. The decision was announced on Sunday [...]