Tisha B’Av (lit. “the ninth of Av”), is an annual fast day in Judaism which commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem and the subsequent exile of the Jews from the Land of Israel. This year the commemoration starts in the sunset of August 4th and finishes in the nighfall of August 5th. The 9th of Av, Tisha b’Av, commemorates a list of catastrophes so severe Read More
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“Dialogue in Truth and Charity – Pastoral Orientations for Interreligious Dialogue” was the theme of the tenth Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue held in Rome from 4 to 7 June 2008. It was an important occasion for the Cardinals and Bishops who were Members of this Pontifical Council to reflect on the Read More
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The president of the Catholic Church’s international aid organization is calling for a permanent ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. In a message, issued Thursday, the president of Caritas Internationalis, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, notes this is the third war in five years between the two parties. Taking into account Read More
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“May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace! The devil plants evil where there is good, trying to divide people, families and nations. But God knows how to wait. He looks into the ‘field’ of each person with Read More
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In memory of Ron Pundak, an architect of the Oslo Accords and the Geneva Initiative By David Grossman Lecture given at the Israel conference on peace organize by Ha Aretz in July 2014 Hope and despair. For years, we were tossed back and forth between one and the other. Today, most Israelis and Palestinians seem Read More
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Explanations range from the practical and mundane to the symbolic and psychological. “And Jacob erected a monument on her grave; that is the tombstone of Rachel until this day” (Genesis 35:20). The Practical: Means: “Here lie the remains of a person worth remembering.” When the tradition started, grave monuments were mounds of stone. Visitors added Read More
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by Sr. Anne-Catherine AVRIL, nds I like the two biblical mountains, Mount Sinai and Mount Zion. The one where Israel received God’s particular revelation, with the covenant and the gift of the Torah, and the other where all the Nations are to gather in order to receive the same Torah, the Word of the Lord, Read More
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Genesis 11:1-9 Listening to the story of Babel we can ask a question: Why did God want to destroy the unity of the children of Noah? Why God is presented as the One who introduces disharmony in humanity that had one goal, destroying their engagement and dispersing in the world? As a first answer we Read More
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