Five hundred and fifty young people from the Holy Land will participate in the 26th World Youth Day. From Israel, Palestine and Jordan, they include fellow Catholics from the Hebrew-speaking community.

How can religion respond to the climate crisis? This was the theme of a conference on sustainable development held recently in Jerusalem.

Anglicans and Catholics are equally concerned about the situation of Christians in the Holy Land. And at a conference in London, attended by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams launched a united “appeal for the Holy Land.”

Watch this week’s video news report from the Holy Land which includes reports on this year’s celebration of Pentecost at the Cenacle, also known as the “Upper Room”.

Watch this week’s video news report from the Holy Land which includes a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the President of the Palestinian Authority.

Watch this week’s video news report from the Holy Land which includes a look at the new iPad application which gives you multimedia updates from the Holy Land.

In this video three Church Leaders from Palestine address a meeting in the Trócaire offices in Maynooth on 30 Nov 2010.

Read the full text of the Holy father’s homily at the close of the Synod on the Middle East along with the offical concluding statement from the Synod fathers.

Multimedia coverage of the first week of the Synod for the Churches of the Middle East taking place in Rome – including the full text of the official report.  The theme for the Synod is ‘Communion and Witness’.

In this podcast, hear about how Vatican Radio is helping to start  the first Christian Radio in Holy Land.  The station will be based in Taybeh from where K&L got Peace Lamps for all our churches in 2008.