Unlike many other Christian families in the Bethlehem area, none of the Hosh siblings have moved abroad.

Graffiti was scrawled in Hebrew on a wall and a car was burned in the Palestinian town of Taybeh

A group of Philippine mothers and children facing imminent deportation from Israel are finding some solace in their faith, with weekly prayer meetings and counseling from their parish priest and nuns.

Appealing to Israel and the United States, Archbishop Michel Sabbah, retired Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, said it was time to move away from war.

Catholic Relief Services cut its services to needy people in the Gaza Strip by closing a U.S. government-funded program because of the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act.

The controversial Israeli Nation State law must be repealed because non-Jews also are citizens of Israel, said the Catholic ordinaries of the Holy Land.

The hospitals provide "invaluable medical care for the most vulnerable populations, including Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank," the Christian leaders said in a Nov. 1 statement.

For Holy Land Christians, St. Paul VI left behind a legacy of Catholic institutions to serve and strengthen the community.

God gives everyone a mission, the mission he gave Diana George Babish is to take care of the abused and abandoned animals in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

After decades of legal disputes, Israel's Supreme Court ruled in May in favor of demolishing the village, home to about 190 people from the Jahalin Bedouin tribe and located between two Israeli settlements. The demolition of the tin and wood structures to clear the way for eventual expansion of the