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Statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27, 2016) of Monsignor Janusz Urbanczyk, Permanent Representative of the Holy See at the 1086th meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, delivered on January 21, 2016.

We publish here the homily of Father Jamal Khader, rector of the Latin Patriarchate Seminary in Beit Jala, for the celebration of World Migrants’ Day in Jaffa on January 16, 2016.

We publish here the message Pope Francis published for World Peace Day on January 1, 2016.

On December 25, 2015, Pope Francis gave his tradition Urbi et Orbis (to the City and the World) blessing and addressed the crowds in Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican.

Pope Francis delivered the following homily on Christmas, December 25, 2015, in the Vatican.

The joint statement on the meeting of the Bilateral Commission of the Delegations of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews was published on December 17, 2015 after two days of meeting in Jerusalem.

On Thursday, December 10, 2015, the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews published a new document on the relations between Jews and Catholics.

On December 3, 2015, a group of Orthodox rabbis published a statement on Christianity in the light of the deepening dialogue between Jews and Christians:

In a ceremony on Monday, November 23, 2015 in Paris, the leaders of French Jewry published a document on Jewish-Catholic relations and presented it to Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris.

At a conference to priests on the occasion of the celebration of 50 years since the Second Vatican Council, on Friday, November 20, 2015, Pope Francis described the priest in the Church:

A film made by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue celebrates the 50th anniversary of Nostra aetate.

Pope Francis’ message for the 31st World Youth Day was released on September 28, 2015, and is focused on the theme from the Beatitudes ‘Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy’. The next meeting of young people from across the globe will take place in the Polish city of Krakow in July 2016.

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal has published a pastoral letter on the Year of Mercy. The letter was published on October 1, 2015.

On Sunday, October 4, 2015, Pope Francis celebrated the inaugural mass of the Synod on the Family in Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.

We publish here the talk of Pope Benedict XVI on Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, delivered on April 6, 2011. Dima translated this talk into Hebrew.

Kol Rina no. 30 (Rosh HaShana 5776)

A new book has been published on the Gospel of Saint John by Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg.

Father David Neuhaus, Latin Patriarchal Vicar, responsible for the Saint James Vicariate for Hebrew Speaking Catholics in Israel, has published a pastoral letter on the occasion of the 60th anniversary since the founding of the Work of Saint James. The letter was published on the Feast of Edith Stein, August 9, 2015.

On July 7, 2015, Pope Francis delivered the following homily in Quito, Ecuador, one of the stops on his South American tour.

We publish here the sixth chapter of Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the environment.