The day July 26, 2016 marks the 5th anniversary of the martyrdom of Fr. Jacques Hamel who was brutally slain while celebrating Holy Mass and pointing his testimony for Lord Jesus when two armed gunmen stormed his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy. In the attack Fr. Hamel’s throat was slit and the attackers were identified as extremists.
Reports have been reverberating in every nook and cranny of the world indicating that nature has been striking back in various parts of the world causing extensive irreversible damage to life and property.
In a world abounding with violence, wars and corruption, the power of divine goodness and mercy always prevail in the end no matter how grave evil is.
On Tuesday, 29 June 2021, and Thursday, 1 July 2021, Bethlehem University held the 45th graduation ceremonies conferring the degrees on 746 graduates.
The graduates were from the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Education, the Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism, the Shukri Ibrahim Dabdoub Faculty of Business Administration, the Faculty of Science, as well as the Tarek Juffali Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences.
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. (Matthew 25:46)
Since the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic, His Holiness Pope Francis has repeatedly called for taking a thorough and comprehensive overview of the post-pandemic period while realizing the grave damage inflicted on the global world economy that would have negative repercussions leading to starvation, poverty, unemployment, violence, and social instabilities.
"Pilgrims, you are invited to visit the Holy Land." This has been the renewed invitation by Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa to the Christians of the world to visit the Holy Land en masse in order to breathe life into the corona-wrecked economy, and to get blessed by visiting the Holy Sites by following in the steps of Lord Jesus.
It is a question that makes one cogitate, think deeply, and meditate looking for an answer. It is hard to find an acceptable or rather a realistic answer to the question, "Will the land of Lord Jesus be left without Christians?"
Under the current difficult and preposterous situations prevailing in the Holy Land, it is hard to give a concrete answer. The website romereports.com has posted a video in the hope of drawing attention to the situation in the Holy Land Christians and to help find acceptable and durable solutions.
On June 1, 2021, the day titled, “The Lord God Has Plans of Peace. Together for Lebanon,” His Holiness Pope Francis was joined by leaders of the different Christian Churches and communities of Lebanon, with their delegations on a day of prayer and reflection for their country as well as for consultations for the future of Lebanon at the Vatican.
Christian unity has all the time been a target. Over the past decades efforts were exerted and numerous meetings were held in order to ensure the restoration of Christian unity, but to no avail.
Since the start of his pontificate, His Holiness Pope Francis has left no stone unturned in his assiduous efforts designed to restore Christian unity and to cast its divine and beautiful effulgence upon the face of world.
