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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 425

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The archaeological site of Saint Hilarion in the center of the Gaza Strip, on June 8, 2022. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)
July 27, 2024, 7:34 pm
UNESCO puts monastery in Gaza, one of Middle East’s oldest, on endangered site list
UN’s World Heritage Center says fourth-century site faces risk of destruction amid ongoing war between Israel and Hamas
By AFP and ToI Staff
A view of a former monastery, in Rome, May 29, 2023, situated on a quiet residential street, which once sheltered Jews fleeing deportation in World War II. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
June 1, 2023, 10:44 am
Ex-monastery in Rome that once sheltered Jews is at center of $17m Vatican scandal
Priest moved millions meant for missionary work into investment fund in apparently legal move, leaving renovation of monastery tied up and nuns forced to commute 90 minutes
By Nicole Winfield
Sheikh Majid bin Saud Al Mualla, chairman of the Umm Al Quwain Department of Tourism and Archaeology, front right, with Noura Al Kaabi, UAE Minister of Culture and Youth, during a visit to the ancient Christian monastery on Siniyah Island in Umm al-Quwain, United Arab Emirates, November 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
November 13, 2022, 5:57 am
Sands of time: Christian monastery, possibly pre-dating Islam, found in UAE dunes
Finding on Siniyah Island in emirate of Umm al-Quwain sheds new light on history of Christians in Gulf region, which then — like today — was ‘a melting pot of nations’
By Jon Gambrell
In this February 5, 2013, file photo, a clergyman prays during an early morning mass at the historic al-Muharraq Monastery, in the province of Assiut, Egypt. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
September 27, 2018, 6:27 pm
Autopsy shows Egyptian monk set to testify in abbot killing was poisoned
Zeinoun al-Maqari died a day before he was scheduled to speak to prosecution about St. Macarius monastery leader killed amid power struggle
By Hamza Hendawi
Erik Ross
February 15, 2016, 3:10 pm
Erik Ross
Men at prayer
The all male prayer of the monks in his community has an urgency to it, like exercises on the training ground
St. Elijah's Monastery on the outskirts of Mosul, Iraq, October 1, 2006. (Col. Juanita Chang/U.S. Army via AP)
January 20, 2016, 11:36 am
Islamic State razes oldest Christian monastery in Iraq
The site of a 6th-century Persian massacre, St. Elijah’s Monastery falls victim to IS’s relentless campaign of destruction
By Martha Mendoza, Maya Alleruzzo and Bram Jansen
Vandals desecrated the Christian cemetery at the Beit Jamal Monastery near Beit Shemesh, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said on January 9, 2016. (Latin Patriarchate’s Media Office)
January 9, 2016, 10:35 pm
Vandals destroy crosses at Beit Shemesh Christian cemetery
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem urges Israel to investigate desecration of dozens of graves at Beit Jamal Monastery
By AFP and ToI Staff
The monastery at Beit Jamal (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
March 14, 2015, 9:37 am
Find a spiritual oasis with the monks of Beit Jamal
Why a monastery outside Beit Shemesh is drawing hordes of local and foreign tourists
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Image of two sides of the Crusader-era seal of St. Sabas monastery discovered in Jerusalem's Bayit Vegan neighborhood. (photo credit: Clara Amit/Israel Antiquities Authority)
May 27, 2014, 2:28 pm
Crusader-era monastic seal discovered in Jerusalem
Rare 800-year-old double-sided lead seal originated in the ancient Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Sabas, near the Dead Sea
By Gavriel Fiske
Beit Jimal monastery (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia)
April 1, 2014, 9:22 am
‘America is Nazi Germany’ painted on monastery
Beit Jimal complex west of Jerusalem targeted in ‘price tag’ attack; vandalism comes during Kerry visit
By Gavriel Fiske
The Ratisbonne Monastery in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem. (photo credit: Fade to Black/Wikipedia)
November 17, 2013, 12:26 pm
Two held for planned vandalizing of French monastery
Attack on Jerusalem site would have coincided with French president’s visit; Muslim judge’s car torched in Jaffa; Muslim gravestones desecrated in Jerusalem
By Gavriel Fiske
April 27, 2013, 3:31 am
Monastery loses 7-year court battle over Israeli security fence
Expanded West Bank barrier would surround convent on 3 sides and cut it off from most of its land, Catholic group says
The Santa Maria de la Vid monastery in Burgos, Spain, sheltered Karl and Ruth Albrecht, refugees from Nazi Germany. (Marianne Perdomo/Creative Commons via JTA)
April 8, 2013, 6:01 am
Spaniard seeks refugee couple who hid in monastery
Santiago Arroyo hopes to find relatives of a German Jew and her Catholic husband, shielded together during Holocaust
By Hillel Kuttler
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