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Alabama Life & Culture No Christmas celebration in Holy Land again this year, Bethlehem native says on visit to Alabama Updated: Oct. 30, 2024, 6:48 a.m. | Published ...
We need hope in this land, marked by so much violence, hatred and wounded by contempt and fear." The cardinal drew from the Gospel account of the shepherds in Bethlehem, highlighting their role in ...
If action is not taken soon, indigenous Christian communities in the Holy Land may cease to exist. Christian communities near Bethlehem are in the spotlight as local families fight their eviction.
Children welcome the custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton, upon his entrance into Bethlehem on Nov. 30, 2024, for the beginning of Advent.
Bethlehem is an important center in the history of Christianity, but Christians make up only a small percentage of the roughly 14 million people spread across the Holy Land. There are about ...
ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 15, 2025 / 06:00 am Friar Francesco Patton, the outgoing Franciscan custos of the Holy Land, reflected on his nine years in office and proposed a path to achieving peace in ...
In 2023, I made a life-changing pilgrimage to the Holy Land with my order, the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. I saw all the towns that Jesus ministered in, such as Galilee ...
Bethlehem is an important center in the history of Christianity, but Christians make up only a small percentage of the roughly 14 million people spread across the Holy Land. There are about ...