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Church “continues to serve” struggling families in the Holy Land
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The war in Gaza shows no sign of stopping, and the Church in the Holy Land is increasing help to preserve the region’s Christian presence, ...
Christians despair in the Holy Land: “We never thought the war would last so long!”
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ACN continues to help Christian communities survive in Israel and Palestine, supporting projects developed by the local Church to overcome the difficulties resulting from the ...
Teaching under Fire: The mission of the Catholic Church in Gaza
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Despite the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Father Gabriel Romanelli is working to create a sense of normalcy through education. The parish priest of the Holy Family ...
Attacks on Christians increase in Israel
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The Holy Land’s Christians have suffered a “disturbing rise” in attacks, including spitting, physical harassment, damage to property and cemeteries, and the disruption of services. ...
Holy Land: Christian message more important than ever
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As war rages on in the Gaza Strip, Christians in the West Bank and Jerusalem find themselves in an increasingly desperate situation. Reinhard Backes, the ...
Egypt: “We’ve seen real progress”
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His Beatitude Ibrahim Sidrak, the Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria, heads the small Coptic Catholic Church, which has about 300,000 members. In an interview with ...
Plans to build more churches in Egypt as religious freedom returns
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A decrease in the influence of Islamist extremism in Egypt has made it possible for Christians to rebuild damaged churches and even consider building new ...
Iraq: “Christians are like olive trees. You can burn them, but they will still bear fruit”
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Many feared that the invasion of the Nineveh Plains would drive Christians from Iraq for good, but ten years after militants of the Islamic state ...
A Car for Pastoral Work in Iraq
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Today, Christians are only a small minority in Iraq. Until 2002, there were more than 1.2 million of them, but war, persecution, and poverty have led ...
Archbishop in Lebanon: ‘We find ourselves in a state of war!’
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The Maronite Archbishop of Tyre, Monsignor Charbel Abdallah, whose archdiocese is one of the oldest in the world, told ACN that despite “finding ourselves in ...