MIDDLE EAST - AFRICA
PHOTOS: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa opens 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in the Holy Land
By Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Dec 30, 2024 / 13:30 pm The entry of the jubilee cross into the Basilica of...
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Priestly vocations are up in Burkina Faso despite Islamic terrorism
By Andrés Henríquez ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 27, 2024 / 15:20 pm Despite constant terrorist attacks suffered by Catholics in...
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We’re ‘finding creative methods to reach people,’ says bishop of 1-year-old Nigerian diocese
By Abah Anthony John ACI Africa, Dec 26, 2024 / 14:00 pm The Diocese of Katsina, whose erection the Vatican...
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Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa: Let us look to the future with hope, without hatred or violence
By Marinella Bandini Bethlehem, Dec 26, 2024 / 10:50 am The atmosphere in Bethlehem, the town where Jesus was born,...
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PHOTOS: Cardinal Pizzaballa shares Christmas message after Gaza visit
By Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Dec 23, 2024 / 17:15 pm The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, met with...
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‘So powerful’: Jonathan Roumie on sponsoring African children through Catholic charity
By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Dec 23, 2024 / 06:00 am In 2023, Catholic actor Jonathan Roumie partnered with...
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Day after Pope said he’d been blocked, Catholic patriarch enters Gaza after all
ROME – Roughly twenty-four hours after Pope Francis publicly charged that Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Rite Patriarch of Jerusalem,...
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PHOTOS: Gaza Catholic parish prepares for second Christmas under war
By Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Dec 22, 2024 / 06:00 am As Christmas approaches, the Latin Church of the Holy Family...
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War, economic struggles threaten Bethlehem’s century-old crafts tradition
By Marinella Bandini Bethlehem, West Bank, Dec 21, 2024 / 13:00 pm Being an artisan in Bethlehem isn’t just a...
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Major religious freedom win for Nigeria: Christian mother acquitted of blasphemy charges
By Madalaine Elhabbal Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 20, 2024 / 06:00 am A Nigerian Christian mother of five has been...
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