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A view of the damage to the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, after an Israeli tank shell hit the church, in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on July 17, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)
July 17, 2025, 4:32 pm
Three killed in strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church; Israel conveys ‘deep sorrow’
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem says several hurt at Holy Family Church including parish priest; Pope Leo expresses sadness; Italy condemns ‘unacceptable’ attacks on civilians
By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg and Agencies
The entrance to Holy Land USA, a defunct religious theme park in Waterbury, Connecticut, that closed in 1984. (Cathryn J. Prince)
January 11, 2025, 5:52 am
A long-abandoned Christian theme park sits just off a US highway. Will it rise again?
Shuttered in 1984, Connecticut’s Holy Land USA is a crumbling hodgepodge of biblical settings that was also the site of a grisly 2010 murder; a local priest works for its resurrection
By Cathryn J. Prince
A teacher leads his students at the Virgin Mary Procession in Haifa, Israel on April 30, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
May 3, 2023, 1:39 pm
Daily Briefing May 3: Israel’s growing opioid problem; Haifa’s flag-bearing Catholics
Health reporter Renee Ghert-Zand discusses addiction, and Sheba’s collaboration with Fauci, as religion correspondent Canaan Lidor looks at JFNA in Israel and interfaith Haifa
By ToI Staff
The body of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI laid out in state inside St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, January 2, 2023. (Andrew Medichini/AP)
January 2, 2023, 11:30 am
Catholics pay tribute to ex-pope Benedict at lying-in-state
Members of the public will have three days to see former pontiff in St. Peter’s Basilica at Vatican before he is moved to tombs below; ‘simple’ funeral planned
By Clement Melki
Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (third left) points to the blood stained floor after an attack by gunmen at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo town, southwest Nigeria, June 5, 2022. (AFP)
June 6, 2022, 8:25 am
Dozens of worshipers feared dead after gunmen attack Nigeria church
State lawmaker says at least 50 dead; many children among victims; priest abducted; no claim of responsibility; rare assault in south; worshipers were marking Pentecost Sunday
By Agencies
An illustrative photo of students at a Jewish day school. (Courtesy of The Epstein School via JTA)
December 22, 2020, 2:55 am
Orthodox Jewish, Catholic groups push up US stimulus funds for private schools
Congress’s $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package includes $2.75 billion for nonpublic educational institutions hit hard by the pandemic
By Ron Kampeas
In this Sunday, June 2, 2019, file photo, Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory, left, greets parishioners following Mass at St. Augustine Church in Washington. Pope Francis has named 13 new cardinals, including Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black US prelate to earn the coveted red cap. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
October 26, 2020, 5:00 am
Naming new cardinals, Pope Francis appoints first Black US prelate
Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory among 13 new cardinals; appointment seen as both a nod to racial justice protests and efforts to be more inclusive of LGBTQ community
By Frances D'Emilio
Elayne Boosler, right, says her cousin Dorothea Buschell was wrongfully buried in a Catholic cemetery. (Boosler via Facebook, JTA)
May 4, 2020, 11:57 pm
Jewish comic Elayne Boosler says cousin mistakenly buried in Catholic cemetery
In foul up, Brooklyn nursing home allegedly did not notify relatives about death of 83-year-old, inters her at wrong burial site, and asks family for $15,000 to cover the cost
By Josefin Dolsten
Pope Francis holds a palm branch as he celebrates Palm Sunday Mass behind closed doors in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 5, 2020, during the lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. (AP Photo/pool/Alberto Pizzoli)
April 5, 2020, 4:11 pm
Handful of monks attend Jerusalem’s Palm Sunday march amid pandemic
Event, which usually draws thousands of pilgrims to commemorate Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, scaled back due to virus
By Moshe Edri
Screen grab from 'The First Temptation of Christ,' produced by Rio-based film company Porta dos Fundos (Netflix)
January 9, 2020, 10:29 am
Brazilian judge orders Netflix to remove comedy film with gay Jesus
Streaming company told to stop showing a Christmas special that some called blasphemous and which prompted a gasoline bomb attack on the satirists behind the program
By AP
Filipino Roman Catholic devotees jostle to get the rope that pulls the carriage of the Black Nazarene during a raucous procession to celebrate its feast day, Jan. 9, 2020, in Manila, Philippines (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
January 9, 2020, 10:14 am
Filipino Catholics pray for Mideast peace in huge gathering
Philippines faces a massive crisis if hostilities between the US and Iran escalate and embroil other countries that host many Filipinos, such as Saudi Arabia and Israel
By Jim Gomez
Pope Francis kisses a figurine of baby Jesus during a mass on Christmas eve at St Peter's basilica in the Vatican, on December 24, 2019. (Alberto PIZZOLI AFP)
December 25, 2019, 7:44 am
Faithful push scandals and chaos aside to usher in Christmas
Pope opens holiday with sermon offering love to ‘even the worst’ as French mark first Christmas in over 200 years without fire-ravaged Notre Dame
By Agencies
A Christian pilgrim kisses an icon of the Virgin Mary in the Church of the Nativity, the site where Christians believe Jesus was born, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on December 18, 2019. (Musa Al Shaer/AFP)
December 22, 2019, 8:34 am
Catholic leaders ask Israel to let Gaza Christians visit Bethlehem for Christmas
After military liaison only permits travel abroad, church heads say Christians in Strip have ‘the right… to celebrate the birth of Jesus the messiah in the place of his birth’
By ToI Staff
Pope Francis, center, celebrates a mass at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Sports Center in the Moroccan capital Rabat on March 31, 2019. (Fadel SENNA/AFP)
March 31, 2019, 6:55 pm
‘Please, no proselytism’: Pope in Morocco warns Catholics off converting others
Moroccan king boasts of protecting country’s Jewish community as pontiff visits
By Sophie Pons
King Mohammed VI (R) waves to the crowd from his car as he arrives with Pope Francis (L) in his pope mobile in Tour Hassan square upon the pontiff's arrival in the North African country on March 30, 2019. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)
March 30, 2019, 6:16 pm
Pope begins Morocco visit to boost dialogue, meet migrants
Improving relations with other religions has been priority for Argentine pontiff, whose papacy has been marred by wave of child sex abuse allegations against clergy
By Sophie Pons and Catherine MARCIANO
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