By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinian priest Rev. Munther Isaac warns that Christian communities in Gaza and the West Bank are facing extinction amid Israel’s ongoing genocide and deepening restrictions. Palestinian Lutheran priest Rev. Dr. […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israeli occupation forces also barred Palestinian Christians from the occupied West Bank on Sunday from entering occupied Jerusalem to participate in Palm Sunday celebrations. The Israeli army demolished the statue […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Despite international observance of Palm Sunday, Israel’s strict restrictions kept thousands of Palestinian Christians from worshipping in occupied Jerusalem. Israeli forces barred Palestinian Christians from the West Bank from entering […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “It will also establish a dangerous legal precedent that could legitimize the expropriation of property rights and the involuntary liquidation of assets belonging to the Christian religious institutions and communities […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Since October 9, 2023, Pope Francis has called Gaza’s Holy Family Parish every evening, a gesture of solidarity for the 600 people seeking refuge there. Pope Francis has been calling […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Last year’s Christmas celebrations were also limited to religious rituals due to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which Israel launched on October 7, 2023. Head of the Higher Presidential Committee […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “With the pure blood of the martyrs, nations are built.” – Archimandrite Abdullah Yulio Mourning the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, a Palestinian priest has said that nations are […]
By Nurah Tape – The Palestine Chronicle Delivering a sermon at a Cape Town church, Isaac reiterated that Gaza has become the moral compass of the world. In a message to the Global South, […]
“We will not survive as a Christian community if the situation of Palestinians in general is not solved.” Members of Gaza’s small Christian community were among the thousands of civilians killed in Gaza as a […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israeli occupation forces, besieging the neighborhood, are still targeting anyone moving within the church compound. A mother and her daughter were killed by Israeli snipers on Saturday at the Holy […]
Former Michigan Congressman Justin Amash announced on Friday that his relatives were among those killed at the Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza City, when its meeting hall was hit by Israeli bombs. “With great […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff UPDATE: The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, announced – in a press conference – that 16 Palestinian Christians were killed and dozens […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Millions of people are expected to protest against the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip throughout the Middle East, in fact, the world. Meanwhile, aid that was supposed to be […]
A final death toll is yet to be announced, but many Palestinians have been reportedly killed and wounded in a devastating Israeli attack that destroyed an ancient Greek Orthodox church in Gaza late on Thursday […]
By Jim Miles (Women’s Voices From Gaza: Come My Children. Hekmat Al-Taweel. Ed. Ghada Ageel & Barbara Bill. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 2023.) The third book in the Women’s Voices From Gaza Series, Come […]
Amid growing attacks by Israeli extremists targeting Christian sites in Palestine, local communities fight back. For the second time in a week, a group of Israeli extremists attempted to raid the Roman Catholic Church and […]
The Latin Parish in Jenin suffered damage from an ongoing Israeli military operation in the Palestinian city, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said on Tuesday, the Anadolu news agency reported. “Jenin city is facing an […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Despite the tragic events surrounding the Israeli attack on Christian worshippers in the Holy Sepulcher Church in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday, April 15, Gaza’s Christians had a peaceful Saturday […]
The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs condemned on Saturday the attack by the Israeli occupation forces on monks, clerics, and Christian worshippers participating in the Holy Saturday celebrations in occupied Jerusalem, the official Palestinian […]
Israeli military checkpoints on Saturday morning obstructed access of Palestinian Christians to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to take part in the Holy Fire ceremony, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Israeli authorities […]
The Jerusalem churches rejected on Wednesday the restrictions to be imposed by Israeli forces during the Holy Light ceremony at the Holy Sepulcher Church in Jerusalem’s Old City, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. […]
In their annual Easter message, the patriarchs and heads of churches in Jerusalem called on Israel to secure safety, access and religious freedom for Christians in the Holy Land during Easter, the official news agency […]
The Russian Foreign Ministry called on Friday for bringing to justice those responsible for the attack against the Church of Gethsemane, in occupied East Jerusalem, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Russian Foreign Ministry […]
A Palestinian man thwarted an attempted attack by two Jewish settlers on a Christian church in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, the official news agency WAFA reported Two settlers entered the Church of Gethsemane and […]
The head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, Archbishop Atallah Hanna, said on Wednesday that Jerusalem is being subject to an “unprecedented conspiracy,” the Middle East Monitor reported. The archbishop made his comment during […]
During a conference held in Rome on Wednesday and Thursday, the Vatican reiterated the importance of free access and worship in all holy places in Jerusalem, The Middle East Monitor reported. The conference was organized […]
A group of Jewish settlers attempted to climb onto the roof of the Armenian Patriarchate to remove the flags of the Patriarchate and the Republic of Armenia, but were prevented from doing so by young […]
Jewish settlers have written racist slurs in Hebrew on the wall of the Armenian Church in Occupied East Jerusalem, Anadolu News Agency reported. The incident took place late Thursday, the High Presidency Committee of Churches […]
Pope Francis on Monday called for preserving the historical and legal status quo in occupied Jerusalem, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Speaking during his annual meeting with the diplomatic corps accredited to the […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Palestinian Eastern Christian community celebrated Christmas on January 6, according to the Eastern calendar, throughout occupied Palestine. The midnight mass was held on Saturday in the St. Porphyrios Church […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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