Nabil Antaki doesn’t want to be “naive.” Sure, the “moderate” rhetoric of the new Islamist authorities—who took control of Aleppo on November 30 and a week later hastened the fall of ...

At two key moments in the liturgical year, the church invites us to celebrate the joy of faith: Laetare Sunday (the fourth Sunday of Lent) and Gaudete Sunday (the third Sunday of Advent ...

On Christmas Eve, December 24, 2024, Pope Francis will open the Holy Door in St. Peter's Basilica. The first major event that will begin the ordinary Jubilee of 2025. In the photo, Pope Francis ...

As Christmas approaches, the churches of Jerusalem have called on their faithful to show signs of Christian hope. But in ...

At the birth of Christ, according to the Gospel of Luke, the first to visit the manger were simple shepherds. This figure is ...

The assisted dying bill, addressing end-of-life choices for terminally ill adults, passed its first reading in the UK ...

On January 20, 2017, the Inauguration Day of the first Trump presidency, I was in Rome to speak at a conference. I still remember listening to the new president’s speech on “American carnage ...

Women on the street in Shiraz, fifth-most-populous city of Iran. (Photo from Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0) Since December 13, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian has stubbornly refused to ...

Pope Francis receives in private audience representatives of executives and employees of various credit institutions at the Vatican, Dec. 16, 2024 . (Photo by VATICAN MEDIA / Catholic Press Photo ...

The famous Bensioglu pastry shop in Gaziantep’s historic center has been bustling nonstop for five days. The constant hum of ovens fills the air as pistachios, almonds, and other nuts adorn the ...

Father François Zongo, priest of the Diocese of Grand-Bassam, in front of his “crèche” in the Divo neighborhood of Abidjan. (Photo by Guy Aimé Eblotié/LCI) I committed myself to serving ...

Christians gather in Damascus on December 13. After the fall of Bashar Al Assad's regime, Christians in Syria seem torn between the hope of a new era and distrust of the Islamists in power.