Jerusalem - Sanad Sahelia - Nabd ElHaya - Six Israeli Jews attacked St. James Monastery in Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter during the early hours of Sunday, August 2, 2026, spitting at the monastery's entrance, banging on its doors, and throwing stones at the home of an Armenian woman who was documenting the incident. The assailants also shouted abusive insults at the woman in what church leaders describe as the latest in a growing pattern of attacks targeting Christians and their holy sites in Jerusalem.

The Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) reported emergency response crews were not able to immediately reach the struck building because responders feared a second strike.

EWTN News - Israeli airstrikes on an apartment building adjacent to the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City damaged the hospital on the evening of July 29, blowing out windows and doors, and frightening patients and medical staff, according to a report by the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA).

By Sanad Sahelia*

Since yesterday, groups of Israeli settlers have been repeatedly observed on Jabal Al-Massis, an area belonging to the town of Taybeh, east of Ramallah. According to eyewitnesses and ongoing monitoring, their activities strongly suggest preparations for the establishment of a new illegal settlement outpost.

TAYBEH – Sanad Sahelia / Nabd El-Hayat – A German parliamentary delegation, accompanied by representatives of the German Representative Office in Ramallah, visited Taybeh, the last entirely Christian town in the occupied West Bank, to gain a firsthand understanding of the growing challenges facing the community amid escalating settler violence targeting the town and its surrounding areas.

War, economic instability, and emigration are driving a decline in Christian communities across the Holy Land, said Bishop Iyad Akram Twal, auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Bishop Iyad Akram Twal, auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, said Christians face an increasingly precarious situation in the Middle East.

His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine and Jordan, and His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, arrived in Gaza today for a pastoral visit. They are accompanied by His Excellency Dr. Josef D. Blotz, Grand Hospitaller of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, together with representatives of Malteser International.

Yesterday evening, Tuesday at approximately 8:30 p.m., we were subjected to yet another attack - one that was complex, alarming, and difficult to comprehend or justify.

The Church has never pronounced dogmatically on the question of extraterrestrial intelligence, but Catholic thinkers over the years have contributed to the discourse on the long-running topic.
The U.S. government on May 8 began releasing files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) — previously referred to as unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — generating nationwide speculation regarding government evidence of extraterrestrial life and nonhuman intelligence. But what does the Catholic Church have to say about it?