“Right now, Christians, Jews and Muslims cannot meet with one another, at least not publicly,” said Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, patriarch of Jerusalem.
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Posted inFaith, News
Bell rung by Olympic champions will ring inside rebuilt Notre Dame Cathedral during every Mass
During the Paris Olympic Games, track champions rang the bronze bell located close to the finish line. In December, that same bell will ring in the newly reopened Notre Dame Cathedral during the most sacred part of the Mass.
Posted inFaith, News
Nicaragua forces the closure of more than 25 Catholic religious orders and lay groups
Totalitarian Nicaraguan State under President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo attacks Catholic groups with forced closures.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Jesuits urge Ortega to ‘stop the repression’ on one year anniversary of Nicaragua’s government seizing university
Jesuits: The “unpunished and unjustified confiscation” of UCA has done “inestimable damage to the scientific and cultural heritage of Nicaragua.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Lebanon is being used as a pawn in Middle East geopolitics—and its Christians are caught in the crosshairs
Dark days indeed appear to be looming ahead for Lebanon. Forces far beyond the control of its already embattled citizens—plagued by years of economic and political instability—are dictating their nation’s future.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
U.K. Catholics denounce anti-migrant violence following deadly attack on Taylor Swift-themed dance class
Rioting was sparked by a knife attack at a dance studio in Southport on July 29. Three children were killed and other children and adults injured and seriously wounded.
Posted inArts & Culture, Dispatches
Reclaiming faith’s place in culture: A celebration of sacred art joins Edinburgh’s festival season
The Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts seeks to reclaim a place for Christian faith in human culture and put faith back into the festival season.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Maduro’s third term in Venezuela could mean more migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
Hopes for political change in Venezuela were dashed just hours after polls closed when the National Electoral Council declared that Nicholás Maduro had been elected to a third term as president.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
I sympathize with the Olympics Last Supper outrage. But save some for the world’s more serious Christian persecution.
The half-hearted “sorry if people were offended” apologies have been Olympian exercises in gaslighting, but I find myself wishing that the Christian community reserved some of that righteousness for more legitimate experiences of persecution.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
‘We want them to go’: Spain is pushing Benedictine monks to leave Franco’s tomb, Spanish Civil War memorial
Spanish media reports that the ministry of culture is drafting a law that will expel monks. But that task will not be easy. The 21 monks do not wish to leave their monastery.