Following weeks of settler attacks on the last entirely Christian village in Palestine, the Vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, Fr. Ibrahim Faltas, makes an impassioned plea for peace.
By Fr. Ibrahim Faltas
In Arabic, Taybeh…
Category: 4. World
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Netanyahu's coalition under pressure as ultra-Orthodox party announces exit
The departure of United Torah Judaism leaves Netanyahu with a razor thin majority in a government coalition dominated by two far-right parties.
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Polish prosecutors probe far-right lawmaker over Auschwitz denial
Grzegorz Braun was widely condemned by leading figures in Poland after labelling Auschwitz concentration camp and its gas chambers as “fake”.
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Sycamore Gap vandals face their fate in English court for felling beloved tree
LONDON — With one man holding a phone to record the tree’s notorious fall and the other working a chainsaw, a pair of vandals forever altered the landscape of a beloved section of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England.
In less than three minutes,…
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Russian woman and daughters found living in remote cave in India for 8 years after visa expired
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A Russian woman and her two young daughters were found living in a cave deep in the forests of southern India years after her travel documents expired, according to…
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Heatwave compounds crisis for Gaza's displaced and injured
Across the Gaza Strip, the scorching heat has exacerbated the crisis, with water shortages, failing sanitation and limited space all threatening public health.
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Netanyahu’s coalition is rattled as ultra-Orthodox party announces exit over military draft law
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli ultra-Orthodox party that has been a key governing partner of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Tuesday it was leaving the coalition government, threatening…
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Israel attacks Syrian military amid deadly clashes between Druze and Bedouin clans | Syria
Israel’s army has said it struck military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces and Bedouin tribes have clashed with Druze militias in the latest escalation in the Middle East country’s struggle for stability after a 13-year civil…
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