‘We need the politicians to be with us,’ says Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal
Topic: West Bank
Jerusalem patriarch denounces wave of retaliations after teen murders
Posted on Tuesday, 8 July 2014 Tags: Fouad Twal, Israel, Jerusalem, Latin Patriarch, Palestine, West Bank
Pope offers condolences to families of three murdered Israeli teens
Posted on Tuesday, 1 July 2014 Tags: Gaza, Hebron, Israel, Israeli Defense Force, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, kidnapping, Pope Francis, West Bank
Vatican spokesman calls the killings ‘terrible and dramatic’
Catholic Herald view: Francis showed power of the personal touch in Holy Land
Posted on Wednesday, 28 May 2014 Tags: BBC, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, David Willey, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Holy Land, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, Mount of Olives, Omar Abboud, Palestinian territories, Patriarch Athenagoras, Patriarch Bartholomew, Patriarch of Moscow, Pope Francis, Pope Paul VI, Rabbi Abraham Skorka, Shimon Peres, West Bank, Western Wall
The trip showed Francis’s remarkable persuasiveness is rooted in a gift for friendship
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