#Christmas

Syria: Idlib, Christians’ Christmas under al-Qaeda rule, with no lights but with the Light

210 Christian families of three villages in the Oronte area near Idlib, northern Syria, controlled by pro-Al-Qaeda jihadist militant group…

Poland: Caritas, Christmas Eve dinner and gifts for thousands of homeless people. Initiatives in 28 cities

Austria: “Il cenacolo” community, a live nativity scene to push drugs out of Burgerland

Gaza strip: the living Christmas of Gazan Christians

The small local Catholic community in Gaza, with only 117 faithful, celebrated Christmas with the Apostolic Administrator of the Latin…

Pope Francis: audience, “make a small nativity scene at home, always”. “It is like opening the door and saying: ‘Jesus, come in!’”

Pope Francis: audience, “it is beautiful to stand before the nativity scene”

South Sudan: Christmas message from leaders of Christian Churches, “make 2020 a year of peace and hope for the people”

A mosque and a cathedral inaugurated in Egypt. Pope Tawadros II: “A new page in our history”

For the first time in the history of the entire Middle East an Islamic mosque and a Christian Cathedral were…

Ten Commandments for a Christian Christmas  

Christmas is a beam of light that brings back memories of love, childhood and family. We all have Christmas stories…

Pope Francis: to Roman Curia, “the Church will never seek to hush up or not take seriously any case”

Pope Francis: to Roman Curia, abuse and infidelity are “sins of peculation”, “today too, many Davids, without batting an eye, betray God, the Church, the people of God”