Posts Tagged ‘Palestine’

Dead Sea Scrolls go digital

Friday, February 21st, 2014

The Dead Sea scrolls will now be accessible for public viewing, and you don’t even need to leave your home to see them. Orchestrated under the Israel Antiques Authority (IAA) with support from Google, the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library is a free, online archive comprised of thousands of high resolution fragments. History, now, is Read more

Church of the Nativity under renovation

Friday, December 20th, 2013

As visitors descend upon Bethlehem this holiday season, they will notice a different look for the Church of the Nativity. Wrapped in scaffolding, the basilica located at the traditional site of Jesus’ birth is undergoing a much-needed facelift after 600 years. Experts say that water is leaking from the rooftop and threatens to cause serious Read more

Bethlehem this Christmas

Friday, December 20th, 2013

“Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem…” (Luke 2:4) As we remind ourselves each year, Joseph and Mary made their long journey, compelled by a census. It became a journey of joy as Mary gave birth to a baby whom we call the Read more

Politics and Christians in the Holy Land

Friday, June 21st, 2013

Given that the Vatican “gay lobby” story was back in the air this week, it may be hard for some to fathom that anything else is cooking on the church beat. Yet there is real news out there, including this: A new threat has emerged to the Christian community in the Gaza Strip, estimated at just 3,000 Read more

Holocaust at sea: the lone survivor of the ‘Struma’

Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

David Stoliar’s neat house sits atop a hill on the edge of Bend, a small city in central Oregon. A few steps lead up to the front door. Stoliar’s wife, Marda, opens, followed by a happy beagle. “Come in,” she says cheerfully. “Come in.” Her husband is waiting in the living room, surrounded by souvenirs Read more

Patriarch’s Palestine message disappears from Catholic website

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

The message of Melkite Patriarch Gregory III Laham, the spiritual head of Lebanon’s second largest Catholic community, has mysteriously disappeared from a Catholic website, just hours after if first appeared, reports Vatican Insider. Patriarch Gregory III Laham will be the first to address the pope during a welcome ceremony and according to his disappeared statement will ask Read more

Bishop Marcuzzo of Nazareth disappointed in Obama

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Monsignor Giacinto Marcuzzo, Bishop of Nazareth and vicar of the Latin Patriarchate, has defended Abu Mazen’s request to the UN, for Palestine to be recognised, a request which “according to us is valid and justified.” At the UN “we feel let down by the United States. President Barack Obama, who had shown courage, clear thinking Read more