Tel Aviv Catholic church serves growing migrant community

c. 2014 Religion News Service

TEL AVIV, Israel (RNS) Many of the locals living around 33 Shivat Zion St. in the southern end of this booming Mediterranean city haven’t heard of the new church in their midst. The facade is plain cement, and there’s no sign hanging outside.

But Our Lady Woman of Valor Pastoral Center for Migrant Workers fills an overwhelming need among Tel Aviv’s diverse and growing Roman Catholic migrant community.