Holy Week in Iraq a sign that Christians are slowly returning to their homes
This year’s Holy Week has a special significance for the Christians of Iraq, who see their situation in the country getting better.
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by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2022 | Church in the Middle East, Holy Week, Iraq, lead, News, Nineveh Plains, Palm Sunday, Qaraqosh | 0 |
This year’s Holy Week has a special significance for the Christians of Iraq, who see their situation in the country getting better.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 11, 2022 | Bakhdida, Beirut, News, Palm Sunday, Qaraqosh, Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Christians once again filled the streets of Qaraqosh for Palm Sunday: Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, visiting from Beirut, led the procession of more than 20,000 people.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 11, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the Middle East, East Jerusalem, Holy Land, Holy Week, Jerusalem, News, Palm Sunday | 0 |
Thousands of Christian pilgrims took part in Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem at the start of the Holy Week.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 11, 2022 | Angelus, Easter truce, Featured, From the Pope, News, Palm Sunday, Palmurelli, Victory | 0 |
Jesus obeyed the most challenging of commandments: to love one’s enemies; and he invites humanity to do the same by breaking a vicious cycle of evil, sorrow and hatred with love and forgiveness, Pope Francis said on Palm Sunday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | Holy Week, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, joy, News, Palm Sunday, Prayer Life & Liturgy, suffering | 0 |
“Be assured of God’s love for you. Seek by his grace to heal the damage of sin. Seek communion with him and with those who make up his Church and those who are not yet within. His love for all of us is unconditional. His joy is infinite. His merc…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | Holy Week, lead, Lent, News, Palm Sunday, Pope Francis, Russia, Sunday Angelus, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, War | 0 |
As the Church begins Holy Week, the days before Easter commemorating Jesus’s crucifixion and death, Pope Francis Sunday appealed for an immediate ceasefire to the war in Ukraine, saying Easter is time to choose life over death.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, Holy Week, lead, Lent, News, Palm Sunday, Pope Francis, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
In his first outdoor Mass in over two years, Pope Francis on Palm Sunday refrained from directly mentioning the conflict in Ukraine but said Jesus’s violent death on the cross is relived in each act of war and in the killing of innocents.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | Commentary, Faith, lead, Lent, News, On Spirituality, Palm Sunday | 0 |
The Lord’s humility allowed him and his mission to be untouched by the acceptance, or rejection, by the crowd. He stood before God the Father. He knew who he was and he knew what needed to be accomplished.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Jesus Christ, Newman's "The Omen and Presage of the True Victory", News, Palm Sunday, St. John Henry Newman, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
A great number of men live and die without reflecting at all upon the state of things in which they find…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 8, 2022 | Holy Eucharist, Jesus Christ, News, Palm Sunday, passion, Paul Claudel, St. Cyril of Alexandria, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • At the procession with palms, Gospel: Lk 19:28-4 • Is 50:4-7 • Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 • Phil 2:6-11 • Lk 22:14—23:56 It is done. We have judged our God and have […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 1, 2022 | ash wednesday, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, Lent, News, Palm Sunday | 0 |
Rules to contain the spread of the coronavirus limited the number of people attending Palm Sunday around the world in 2020 and 2021, causing a shortage for ashes to use on Ash Wednesday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christians in Iraq, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, News, Palm Sunday, Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Younan | 0 |
Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, visiting from the patriarchate in Beirut, led about 20,000 Christians through the streets of Qaraqosh Palm Sunday, March 28.
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