Category: Statements
Statement from Bishop Declan Lang on recent violence in the Holy Land
As I pray for the dead and injured from both the Palestinian and Israeli sides, I also call upon both communities and their leaderships to exercise restraint and refrain from going down the slippery road of tit-for-tat killings and mutual recrimination.
Message from the Plenary Assembly of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences, Holy Land 2015
They also express their thanks to the religious, in this year devoted to the Consecrated Life, and to all the Christians whom they have met and who live in this Land, for their testimony of faith and safekeeping of the Holy Places as places of Christian remembrance and living worship.
Statement on Gaza from Cardinal Vincent Nichols
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has issued a statement on the violence in Gaza pleading for an immediate truce and an “end to this carnage”.
Bishop Declan Lang’s Statement on Gaza
Indeed, my mounting concern witnesses the indiscriminate and relentless attacks by the Israeli military machine on the civilian population of Gaza. I condemn in equal measure the firing of rockets by militants from Gaza into populated civilian areas across Israel.
Statement from Bishop Declan Lang on the situation in the Cremisan Valley
The Rt Rev Declan Lang, Bishop of Clifton and Chair of the Holy Land Coordinating Committee, has released a statement on the situation in the Cremisan Valley: “The Holy Land Coordinating Committee notes with dismay the decision of the Israeli Special Appeals Committee endorsing the route of the separation wall which will have the effect…
Address: Latin Patriarch opens the 2011 Holy Land Co-ordination
Your Excellency Archbishop Antonio Franco, Apostolic Delegate to Israel and Palestinian Authorities, Your Excellencies, Bishops and Representatives of Catholic Bishops Conferences, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends, We welcome you all, and we thank you for being faithful towards Jerusalem and the Mother Church. Your participation and your commitment towards strengthening the Mother Church, and your…
Statement issued by Archbishop Patrick Kelly in support of the Churches of the Holy Land
Today I am offering the third of a triduum of Masses to pray for the pilgrimage beginning today of Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, Archbishop of Westminster; Archbishop Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop Nathan Hovhannisian, Primate of the Armenian Church of Great Britain and Rev David Coffey, Free Churches Moderator. This journey of prayer and…
