Sitting at home in Jerusalem, like so many other residents, one would never think that within only two to three hours’ drive from here, chaos and turmoil is running rampant beyond Israel’s borders. In fact, it is hard to believe that Israel has become,...
A 2012 report by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reveals that Christianity is growing at a rate of 1.3 percent annually in the Holy Land. Clerics, however, recently expressed a concern about the life challenges faced by the Christian population there. CBS...
Seventeen years have elapsed since the Coptic Church first requested permission to build a church in the town of Nubaria, Northern Egypt. On June 7 their prayer was granted. But not everyone is lining up to thank President Mohamed Morsi for passing the first decree of...
Secretary of State John Kerry released the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 2012 today, Monday, May 20, 2013, at 11:30 a.m. in the State Department Press Briefing Room. Secretary Kerry introducde the report and Ambassador-at-Large for International...
Pope Francis on Wednesday told leaders of women’s orders from around the world to be “fertile” spiritual mothers in the Catholic Church, not “spinsters.” The Argentine pontiff addressed some 800 leaders of female religious orders who are in Rome for the meeting of the...
