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Cardinal to Hamas and Israel: pick up binoculars to see your innocent victims
Friday, 1 August 2014
Jerusalem patriarch, meanwhile, says conflict is turning Gaza into a ‘factory for extremists’
Pope Francis meets family of Jesuit kidnapped in Syria
Friday, 1 August 2014
Meeting followed a video appeal from the family
French cardinal ‘urged Iraqi Christians to remain in homeland’
Friday, 1 August 2014
Cardinal Barbarin celebrated Mass in the Assyrian town of Ankawa
Schedule unveiled for the Pope’s one-day trip to Albania
Friday, 1 August 2014
Francis will meet bishops, leaders of other faiths and people helped by Caritas
Filming set to begin on Scorsese’s Jesuit epic
Friday, 1 August 2014
Andrew Garfield and Liam Neeson to star in Silence

Caritas appeals for end to Gaza conflict after first Christian death
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Israeli missile strike hit the house of Christian family in Gaza on Sunday
Catholic parish staff and disabled children had ‘nowhere to go’ after Gaza bomb warning
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Priest and nuns had to evacuate 29 severely disabled children and nine elderly women
Holy Land still safe for pilgrims, says head of US tour operator
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Conflict between Israel and Hamas has not stopped pilgrimages ‘functioning like normal’
Agency seeks donations for emergency aid for Iraqi Christians
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
International Catholic agency issues plea for emergency funds to help refugees forced to leave Mosul

Print Edition: August 1 2014

This week we report on the mounting pressure on David Cameron to speak out and take action over persecuted Iraqi Christians and the Catholic Education Service’s call not to make sex education compulsory.

Madeleine Teahan talks to Catholic cartoonist about how she came back to the Faith and David Bell writes about the prelate who took on Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile, Mary Kenny reveals why actress Liz Carr is her new heroine and Nick Thomas pinpoints the moment that Ed Miliband lost it.

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Features

The organist is dead
Thursday, 31 July 2014
A great English Christian figure is in danger of dying out
Pushing the patriarch into Putin’s arms
Monday, 28 July 2014
Francis’s ‘who am I to judge?’ line may have cooled the ecumenical ardour of the Russian Orthodox hierarchy
The myth of why ‘faith’ schools work
Thursday, 17 July 2014
The Trojan Horse scandal only emphasised how neither side of the debate is telling the whole truth

Booming reform group is still an enigma
Thursday, 10 July 2014
A Call to Action is growing at an amazing rate, but do even its members know what it really stands for?
Fulton Sheen and the miracle of baby James
Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Bonnie Engstrom tells The Catholic Herald how her son was restored to life after she prayed to a pioneering televangelist