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Priests gather at the garden of the Basilica of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, northern Israel, on August 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
August 14, 2026, 7:02 pm
Israel’s Christians rely on faith and allies as they fear rising harassment
Many Christians, who make up less than 2% of the country’s population, feel the government isn’t doing enough to protect them
By AP
File: Archbishop of Canterbury Dame Sarah Mullally is greeted by Rabbi Charley Baginsky (center) and Rabbi Josh Levy as she arrives for a visit to the to Sternberg Centre to meet with the Jewish community in Finchley, London, May 14, 2026 (Jonathan Brady/PA Images via Getty Images, JTA)
July 14, 2026, 11:07 am
Church of England urges study of Palestinian Christian document accusing Israel of genocide
Text ‘risks undermining decades of careful relationship-building’ between Christians and Jews, warns UK’s chief rabbi
By Kelly Hartog
Jerusalem's Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and his Greek Orthodox counterpart Theophilos III visit Gaza City, June 22, 2026. (Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem via X)
June 22, 2026, 4:01 pm
Jerusalem’s Latin and Greek patriarchs visit Gaza, vow to not abandon its Christians
Visiting Gaza City’s Holy Family Church, Cardinal Pizzaballa says he came out of ‘desire for support and unity’; clergyman also to participate in interfaith dialogue event
By AFP and ToI Staff
Palestinian parishioners check a recently installed Christmas tree after the previous one was destroyed at the Holy Redeemer Latin Church in the West Bank town of Jenin, December 23, 2025. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)
December 25, 2025, 3:20 pm
3 Palestinians arrested for torching Christmas tree at West Bank Catholic church
Palestinian Authority police say arson was attempt to incite sectarian and religious tensions; Holy Redeemer Church of Jenin hastily finds replacement in time for Christmas Mass
By AP and ToI Staff
Pope Leo XIV looks on as he performs the Christmas mass at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on December 25, 2025. (Tiziana FABI / AFP)
December 25, 2025, 3:12 pm
In 1st Christmas mass, Pope Leo laments ‘rain, wind, cold’ facing displaced Gazans
Drawing parallels to the birth of Jesus in a Bethlehem tent, pontiff asks: ‘How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza?’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
An aerial view shows scouts marching during Christmas eve celebrations on Manger Square outside the Church of the Nativity (unseen) in Bethlehem, West Bank, on December 24, 2025. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
December 25, 2025, 12:01 am
Bethlehem sees full Christmas revelry for first time since outbreak of Gaza war
Hundreds parade down Manger Square, thought to be Jesus’s birthplace, as bagpipes and drums return to West Bank city, which hosted subdued celebrations as conflict gripped region
By AFP
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Palestinian Authority Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh. (Collage/AP, AFP)
December 18, 2025, 10:14 pm
Huckabee holds rare meeting with PA official to discuss West Bank tensions — officials
Hussein al-Sheikh raises Israeli withholding of Palestinian tax revenues and asks for US envoy’s assistance in securing access to Jerusalem, Bethlehem holy sites for Palestinian Christians
By Jacob Magid
A popemobile used by Pope Francis during his visit to Bethlehem in 2014, after renovations to convert it into a mobile health clinic for children in Gaza, as seen in the West Bank in November 2025. (Courtesy)
November 25, 2025, 4:46 pm
Popemobile used by Francis in Bethlehem refitted as mobile clinic for Gaza kids
Late pope blessed project to repurpose the Mitsubishi pickup truck he used during his 2014 West Bank visit; Israel says it hasn’t received a request for vehicle to enter Strip
By Lazar Berman and Agencies
A view of the damage to the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, after an Israeli tank shell hit the church the previous day, in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on July 18, 2025. (X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 2, 2025, 12:47 pm
American Jewish Committee gifts $25,000 to Gaza church damaged by Israeli shelling
In rare donation to Gaza from a mainstream US Jewish group, AJC says ‘in wake of this tragedy, we want to be there for Catholic partners who have been there for the Jewish people’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (C) shakes hands with Father Daoud Khoury of the Greek Orthodox Church during his visit to the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh in the West Bank on July 19, 2025. (Jaafar Aashtityeh/ AFP)
July 19, 2025, 4:54 pm
US envoy demands ‘harsh consequences’ as he visits Christian town attacked by settlers
Touring Taybeh, Mike Huckabee says ‘desecrating a church, mosque or synagogue is a crime against humanity and God’ following arson attack on ruins of Christian house of worship
By ToI Staff
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa (L), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III (2nd-R), and Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Nourhan Manougian (R) stand together during a visit by the head clergymen of several Christian denominations to the fifth-century Church of St George in the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh, northeast of Ramallah in West Bank on July 14, 2025, days after an arson attack on the site reportedly committed by Israeli settlers. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
July 14, 2025, 11:40 pm
Top church leaders accuse Israeli authorities of abetting settler attacks in Taybeh
Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III and Latin Patriarch Pizzaballa tour targeted West Bank town, say settler attacks are a threat to Christian heritage in the region
By Jeremy Sharon
A fire burns next to the archaeological site of the ruins of the Church of St. George in the West Bank town of Taybeh, July 9, 2025. Residents allege that local settler extremists started the fire. (Courtesy Nabd ElHaya online radio station)
July 9, 2025, 6:17 pm
Taybeh church leaders condemn rising settler harassment, arson in West Bank town
Heads of Greek Orthodox, Latin and Melkite churches in Christian Palestinian bastion say settlers increasingly encroaching on agricultural lands, burned field near historic site
By Jeremy Sharon
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa leads Christmas morning service at the Christmas morning Mass at the Catholic Church of Saint Catherine, in the Nativity Church Complex, in Bethlehem in the West Bank on December 25, 2024. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
December 25, 2024, 5:50 pm
Bethlehem marks second subdued Christmas, amid pall of ongoing war
Latin patriarch, after visiting Catholics in Gaza, urges faithful in West Bank city to ‘not give up,’ as pope in Vatican laments ‘bombs on schools and hospitals’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa (C) poses for a picture with people and children at the Holy Family Church in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City on December 22, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
December 24, 2024, 2:38 pm
Latin patriarch visits Catholic community in Gaza for second time since war’s start
Pierbattista Pizzaballa visits Holy Family parish in Gaza City, home to some 400 sheltering Christians, for an early Christmas Mass; reports worse conditions than he saw in May
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter Sunday Mass at the Catholic Holy Family Church in Gaza City, on March 31, 2024. (AFP)
March 31, 2024, 8:41 pm
Palestinian Christians mark muted Easter in Gaza and Jerusalem
Small gathering held in Holy Family Church in Gaza City near Shifa Hospital, while main service at capital’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre draws only a modest crowd
By AFP and ToI Staff
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