Holy Land: Caritas Italy, twinning and pilgrimages to allow local Christian communities overcome their frustration
di Daniele Rocchi“Reducing the sense of isolation of the Christian Palestinian community; encouraging charity towards parish communities to reduce extreme poverty; contributing…
Holy Land: a long wave of attacks against churches and mosques and unknown perpetrators. Msgr. Marcuzzo “it’s a widespread climate of hate. The police must investigate these crimes”
di Daniele RocchiFrom 2009 to July 2017, over 50 Christian and Muslim sites were vandalized in Israel and in the West Bank,…
Holy Land: Nuncio Lazzarotto leaves, “hope was sown, ground is good. Good farmers are needed”
Holy Land: 800 years of Franciscan presence. Patton: “Encounter is not only possible, it’s necessary”
di Daniele Rocchi2017 marks 800 years of Franciscan presence in the Holy Land. Like Saint Francis, who wished to meet and dialogue…
Collection for the Holy Land: Card. Sandri’s call, “changing a life of war and division”
“Two Peoples, two States.” Burg (ex Knesset spokesperson): “There can be no future until Israel uses an iron fist against the Palestinians.”
di Daniele Rocchi“There can be no future until Israel uses an iron fist against the Palestinians: desperate, humiliated and submitted”, said Avraham…
Holy Land: HLC Bishops, “military occupation – a scandal to which we must never become accustomed”
Israeli occupation: the cry from Hebron, “let’s break the wall of silence”
di Daniele RocchiOn January 16 the Holy Land Coordination of bishops (HLC) met with Yehuda Shaul, co-founder of the Israeli NGO “Breaking…
Synod on youth: mgr. Bacouni (Haifa), “even in the Holy Land, the new generations are leaving the Church”
2017 in the Holy Land: from Nebuchadnezzar to the Six-Day-War, dates and anniversaries to understand the challenges of our times
di Daniele RocchiAnother year of violence and vileness, of persecutions and arbitrary executions, of the loss of innocent lives – among them…
Middle East Christians awaiting to see the first moves of US President Donald Trump
di Daniele RocchiThe changes in foreign policy flaunted by US President-elect Donald Trump during his election campaign, prefigure a different approach to…