Tuesday 19 October |

Saint of the Day: St. Isaac Jogues and the Martyrs of North America

Middle East

AFGANISTAN

J-P Mauro

Vatican opens channel for talks with Taliban over ‘humanitarian corridor’

CHALDEAN

Lauriane Vofo Kana

Camilla, a Christian from Mosul, saved from ISIS by a Muslim family

HOSPITAL BED

J-P Mauro

Catholic Palestinian saved by transplant from slain Israeli Jewish man

Ur in Iraq

John Burger

Hope in Iraq that Pope’s visit to Abraham’s birthplace will spur unity, tourism

Silvia Lucchetti

Quadruplets born in Afghanistan are a sign of hope in a time of war

BETHLEHEM

J-P Mauro

Bethlehem’s tourism industry needs a Christmas miracle

Abrahamic Family House

John Burger

Multi-faith complex to rise where pope and imam signed agreement

Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

J-P Mauro

High-tech Israeli research lab carbon dates with extreme accuracy

STOLEN ANTIQUES

J-P Mauro

Looters take advantage of world isolation to plunder Holy Land archaeological sites

JESUS BAPTISM SITE

Jordan Tourism Board N.A.

How do we know this is where Jesus was baptized?

WORLD YOUTH DAY

J-P Mauro

World Youth Day may be coming to the Middle East

BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY SCHOLARSHIP

J-P Mauro

Earn a dig scholarship and excavate the Holy Land in 2020

Washington's Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land

J-P Mauro

US Franciscans gather “swaddling clothes” to send to Bethlehem

MOSAICS

J-P Mauro

Newly unearthed mosaic could hold clues to location of Jesus’ miracle of the loaves and fishes

RUINS OF BETHSAIDA

J-P Mauro

Archaeologists uncover a gate from the time of King David

J-P Mauro

You can volunteer to work on a Middle-Eastern archaeological dig this summer

CRUSADES

J-P Mauro

Evidence of Crusaders using biological warfare uncovered in Lebanon

JOSHUA'S AI

J-P Mauro

Archaeologists believe they have discoverd the Old Testament city of Ai

MORGAN FREEMAN

J-P Mauro

Morgan Freeman searches for ‘The Story of God’ in Israel

QASR EL YAHUD; JESUS BAPTISM SITE

John Burger

Jesus’ baptismal site cleared of landmines

TEMPLUM DOMINI

J-P Mauro

The lasting impact of the Crusades on Jerusalem

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AVENIDO BROTHERS

Agnès Pinard Legry

Three brothers ordained priests on the same day in the Philippine...

difficult people

How to love people you don’t really like

Philip Kosloski

A scientist describes the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima

SQUID GAMES

Philip Kosloski

How the violence in ‘Squid Game’ can impact your soul

SKULL AND CROSSBONES

Margaret Rose Realy, Obl.OSB

The ‘Tree of Death’ haunts many a cemetery

saint teresa of Avila

Now there’s a computer font based on St. Teresa of Avila’s handwr...

Cerith Gardiner

Archbishop gives little girl a beautiful response about why God a...