ATLANTA—The Franciscans have faced a host of challenges in the Holy Land as custodians of Christian shrines ever since St. Francis of Assisi traveled there in the 1200s during the Crusades and established a rapport with the ruling sultan. But in their sandals-on-the-ground view, today’s challenge is monumental with eternal relevance: to reverse the plummeting of the Christian population in ...
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