MIDDLE EAST - AFRICA

Iraq’s top Catholic leader hopes the new year will help  the citizens of this violence-torn country overcome divisions and tensions,...

BEIRUT — The head of Lebanon’s largest Christian party said on Sunday that a 15-year-old alliance with the country’s powerful...

By CNA Staff Abeokuta, Nigeria, Dec 30, 2021 / 15:00 pm Fr. Luke Mewhenu Adeleke, a priest of the Diocese...

BEIRUT — Patriarchs of the Middle East urged their faithful, overwhelmed with suffering, to hold on more tightly to hope...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Musicians banging drums and playing bagpipes marched through the biblical town of Bethlehem on Friday to...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The biblical town of Bethlehem is gearing up for its second straight Christmas Eve hit by...

JERUSALEM — Despite the continuing difficulties, Christmas in Gaza this year is filled with faith, hope and resilience, a Latin...

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s religious leaders met with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during his visit to the crisis-stricken country. Cardinal...

The leaders suggested the creation of a special Christian cultural and heritage zone within the Christian Quarter, similar to one...

"Almost everybody has been affected in one way or another." By 2016, he said, many of the internally displaced persons...