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Dima translated into Hebrew Chapter 4 of the Apostolic exhortation GAUDETE ET EXSULTATE of the Holy Father Francis on the call to holiness in today's world. 

Dima translated into Hebrew Chapter 3 of the Apostolic exhortation GAUDETE ET EXSULTATE of the Holy Father Francis on the call to holiness in today's world. 

Dima translated into Hebrew Chapter 2 of the Apostolic exhortation GAUDETE ET EXSULTATE of the Holy Father Francis on the call to holiness in today's world. 

Short Presentation of the Apostolic Exhortation, and a link to the full text in English

“Because of the increase of iniquity, the love of many will grow cold” (Mt 24: 12)

Today, February 1, The Israeli Population and Immigration Authority starts notifying Asylum Seekers from Eritrea and Sudan about their deportationWe publish the Statement of the Heads of the Catholic Church in Israel concerning the “departure or incarceration” policy towards Asylum Seekers from Eritrea and Sudan

Bhea reports

NAZARETH, ISRAEL - 30 DECEMBER 2017 The sixth anniversary of anything is usually referred to as “candy anniversary” or “iron anniversary”: “candy” because it is tempered by something sweet to obviate hard or bitter experiences along the way;

On January 1st 2018, The Israeli Population and immigration Authority published a policy announcement offering asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea a choice between one of two options:  either departure or incarceration.

Thanks to Dima, we publish Pope Francis’s Message for World Peace Day, which falls on January 1, 2018.

Thanks to Dima, we publish Pope Francis’s Christmas even homily in Hebrew from December 24, 2017 in the Vatican.

David Flusser, renown researcher of the history of Jesus and early Christianity at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was born 100 years ago and in a fascinating article in HaAretz newspaper (Friday, November 10, 2017), his son Yohanan remembers him.

Amy Kronish and Eli Tal El directed this 2001 documentary on Jewish-Catholic relations in the light of the 2000 pilgrimage of Pope John Paul II to the Holy Land.

We publish here the links to two documentaries on the development of Jewish-Catholic dialogue from Australia and from France.

Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew published a joint appeal for creation on the World Day of Prayer for Creation, September 1, 2017.

On August 29, 2017, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, wrote a letter to the Coordination of the Pastoral Among Migrants team and to the migrant communities regarding the resignation of Father David.

On August 29, 2017, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, wrote a letter to the members of the Hebrew speaking Catholic communities regarding the resignation of Father David.

Pope Francis published his message for World Migrants’ Day 2018.

Richard Prasquier, President of the Jewish French organization, CRIF, from 2007 until 2013, gave an interview to the French Catholic daily, La Croix, published on Friday, August 4, 2017. We published here an excerpt.

The members of the Helsinki Consultation on Jewish Continuity in the Body of Messiah held the sixth gathering of the Helsinki Consultation in Krakow from June 23 until 27, 2017. The participants issued the following statement.