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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

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Edna and Yitzhak Hananyah after attending Birkat Kohanim in Jerusalem, Israel, on April 9, 2023. (Canaan Lidor)
April 9, 2023, 5:00 pm
Wary amid terror fears, thousands of Jews receive priestly blessing at Western Wall
In a monotheistic trifecta, a stream of Jews, Muslims and Christians celebrate their different holidays in an ultra-tense Old City
By Canaan Lidor
Father Georgy Edelshtein, an 89-year-old Russian Orthodox priest, speaks with AFP in his house in the hamlet of Novo-Bely Kamen on the banks of the River Volga in the Kostroma region on April 25, 2022. (Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP)
May 1, 2022, 10:59 am
Risking jail, handful of Russian priests condemn Ukraine conflict amid threats
Orthodox Father Georgy Edelshtein, born to a Jewish father and Catholic mother, says Ukrainians should be allowed to ‘build their state as they see necessary’
By Romain COLAS
Egyptian Coptic Christian priests pray during the Easter Eve service at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, April 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
April 9, 2022, 7:57 am
Coptic priest dies after he was stabbed on Egyptian seaside promenade
Prominent Sunni leader Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayyeb condemns attack, saying such acts ‘might instigate religious wars’; Copts believed to be among world’s oldest Christian communities
By AP
Firefighters work to put out a fire at the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes, western France, on July 18, 2020. (Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP)
August 9, 2021, 7:47 pm
French Catholic priest murdered by Rwandan refugee who torched cathedral in 2020
Man who confessed to burning Gothic Nantes cathedral last year was initially arrested, then freed under judicial control, source close to probe says
By AFP
Illustrative: Not a member of the Catholic Jesuit order, Cesare Vincenzo Orsenigo was a top Vatican diplomatic link with the Nazi regime. In this 1939 photo he speaks with Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, with Adolf Hitler in the background. (Bundesarchiv bild)
November 10, 2020, 3:02 pm
Jesuit Catholic priest pens book about his order’s complicity in the Holocaust
Historian James Bernauer’s book ‘Jesuit Kaddish’ surprises academic Catholic order with a novel study of its members’ anti-Semitism — and honors those who saved Jews during WWII
By Rich Tenorio
Pope Francis is greeted by faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican, February 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
February 12, 2020, 7:13 pm
Pope decides against married men as priests
Strong voices within the Church call for ‘respected’ married Amazonian men to be ordained as priests and for the Vatican to reopen a study commission on ordaining women as deacons
By Nicole Winfield
In this photo taken on June 28, 2017, Pope Francis (L) embraces Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, at the Vatican. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
January 14, 2020, 7:03 pm
Vatican in turmoil as popes appear to spar over celibacy
Benedict XVI seeks to distance himself from controversial book he supposedly co-authored supporting ban on married priests, as current pope reportedly plans to ease it
By AFP and ToI Staff
An undated photo provided by the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, of Father William Aitcheson, a priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington. (screen capture)
August 28, 2017, 11:39 pm
Catholic priest leaves post after revelations of his KKK past
DC-area minister never apologized or paid court-ordered restitution to 2 Jewish institutions for burning crosses on their property
By JTA
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