#Christmas

Neither turkeys nor petrol, Brexit undermines the Brits’ Christmas

UK isolation from Europe is starting to impact on the daily lives of the British subjects. There is a shortage…

Gaza Strip: in the Holy Family Catholic church it’s already Christmas despite COVID-19

Christmas celebrated by the Christian community of the Gaza Strip, where this year “Jesus was born a month earlier.” The…

Austria: Star Singers challenging Covid between technology and tradition. Fundraising for India

Germany: Bavaria, curfew on Christmas Eve. Bishops, “we ask for an exemption for Masses”

Netherlands: Bishops suspend Masses on Christmas Eve. Decision taken “painfully, but with responsibility for public health”

Christmas in Syria. Card. Zenari (Nuncio): “The poverty into which Jesus was born is the same poverty afflicting Syrian children today.” Testimonials from Idlib and Qamishli

The Christian communities in war-torn Syria look forward to Christmas. First-hand accounts from the Apostolic Nuncio, Card. Mario Zenari, and…

Scotland: Bishops’ letter in the run-up to Christmas. “Love of neighbour vital principle of our culture”

Christmas Mass. Don Tomatis (FTIS): “Albeit somewhat less adorned, it will be a true Christmas”. Celebrations can begin as early as 7 p.m.

“Simple people’s bewilderment, as they shake their heads over the fact that this year Jesus must be ‘born earlier’ (how…

Solemn Entry to the Holy Sepulchre. Patriarch Pizzaballa: “I will bring with me what I am, all my limitations and my thirty years of life in the Holy Land”

Next December 4, Msgr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa will make his Solemn Entry to the Cathedral of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem…

A different Christmas for British Catholics. Bishop Arnold: “Think about others, not just ourselves”

This coming Christmas the Catholic Church in England will ask the faithful to go to Mass only once and be…

Germany: Government asks to “avoid large gatherings at religious celebrations” over Christmas. Wide range of streamed Masses.