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Professor Mouna Maroun is the first Arab to be elected as the rector of an Israeli university, the University of Haifa. Maroun belongs to the Arab minority in Israel, the Christian minority among Arabs, and the Maronite minority among Christians. She says she is proud of her religious affiliation and wears a golden crucifix around her neck. "My election is an important message that everything is possible in the Israeli academia," she told CNA.

First Arab Christian woman to lead Israel’s University of Haifa

May 4, 2024

By Marinella Bandini

The announcement of Professor Mouna Maroun’s appointment was made amid tensions with Iran and as anti-Israel protests were mounting around... Read more

CNA

Analysis: South Lebanon is a ‘volcano in motion,’ and Christian villages do not sleep

Oct 26, 2023

By Elias Kattar

For more than two weeks, the Lebanese Christian villages along the border with the Holy Land have experienced a state... Read more

Tehran skyline, Iran.

Iran sentences Christian convert to 10 lashes for 'disturbing public order'

Apr 23, 2020

Iran has sentenced a 21 year-old Christian woman to prison and lashing for “disturbing public order,” after she protested the... Read more

Al and Yousef Astfan, brothers from Syria in Krakow at World Youth Day 2016.

Bishops propose Arab World Youth Day for Middle East Catholics

Feb 28, 2020

By Courtney Mares

Bishops from the Middle East have proposed a regional youth gathering similar to World Youth Day for young Catholics from... Read more

CNA

In Arab Christian's murder, some see deadly American cultural tensions

Aug 19, 2016

By Kevin J. Jones

Khalid Jabara, a Lebanese-American Christian man, was killed in Tulsa, Okla. last week. His alleged assailant was a man who... Read more

Vatican rolls out first-ever guidebook for Arab pilgrims

May 28, 2015

By Elise Harris

In a move intended to reach out to Arab pilgrims who make their way to the Eternal City, the Vatican... Read more

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Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives at Massachusetts’ Dedham District Courthouse for his arraignment on Sept. 3, 2021.

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The entry of the cross into the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on Dec. 29, 2024, marks the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in the Holy Land. The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, crossed the threshold of the basilica carrying the jubilee cross accompanied by Archbishop Moussa Hage, Maronite archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land (on his right), and Archbishop Youssef Matta, Greek Catholic (Melkite) archbishop of Acre, Haifa, Nazareth, and Galilee (on his left).

PHOTOS: Cardinal Pizzaballa opens 2025 Jubilee Year in Holy Land

“What we have to aspire to is to be saints,” the relatives of the late Belgian King Baudouin recall him urging.

Relatives of Belgian King Baudouin: ‘His whole life was a witness to the living Christ’

Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California.

UPDATE: Oakland Diocese denies it used diocesan fund to hide money from abuse victims

Father Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty this week to kidnapping and raping a teenage boy in the 1970s, heading off a long-delayed trial that launched with an indictment last year. 

Louisiana priest Lawrence Hecker dies in prison after life sentence over rape of teenager

Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2024.

Pope Francis remembers Jimmy Carter’s ‘firm commitment’ to peace, reconciliation

Blessing of a plane at Dublin Airport.

Dublin Airport aircraft blessing: New chaplain continues 77-year Irish Catholic custom

Catholic Land Movement co-founders Andrew Ewell (top left) and Michael Guidice (top right), pictured here on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica.

In Vatican meetings, Catholic Land Movement proclaims faith, family, and farming

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