Instead, they got to work, reciting a prayer for each seed they planted. Once again, their devotion to the land, their love of farming, and their desire to provide for as many people as they could ...

Israeli strikes pounded the Gaza Strip Wednesday night and Thursday, killing at least 34 Palestinians, including 10 people ...

They pray for you because you always pray for them,” Yusuf told the pope, according to Vatican News. Christmas Mass at the Holy Family parish in Gaza City on Dec. 24. Rami Zohud / Middle East ...

This prayer, composed by Rabbis Roly Matalon and Felicia Sol from B’nai Jeshurun in NYC, gives voice to the horrors faced by all civilians in the last year, which have continued on a daily basis.

Hundreds of Christians in war-ravaged Gaza City gathered at a church on Tuesday, praying for an end to the war that has devastated much of the Palestinian territory.Gone were the sparkling lights, the ...

(RNS) — Palestinian Christians have dwindled from 11% to less than 1% of the population in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The war in Gaza has put them on the precipice.

Hilda Joseph Ayyad, a parishioner at the Holy Family Church in Gaza, recently celebrated her 20th and wrote about that for L'Osservatore Romano and Vatican News Service.

Irish Catholic Bishops are calling on the faithful to dedicate tomorrow, Friday, June 6, as a day of prayer and fasting as part of their urgent appeal for peace and solidarity.

With much of Gaza in rubble, men, women and children were forced to hold the traditional Eid al-Adha prayers in the open air and with food supplies dwindling.

Ireland’s bishops appealed to the faithful to make the first Friday in June a day of prayer and fasting in solidarity with those suffering in Gaza and the ...