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Pope Leo condemns Israeli strike on Gaza church in call with Netanyahu

Pope Leo emphasized the importance of protecting places of worship in a call with Benjamin Netanyahu following Israel's ...
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Pope Leo XIV slams "barbarity" of Israel's ongoing destruction of Gaza

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday slammed the "barbarity" of Israel's war on Gaza as its campaign of mass killing and starvation in the ...
Catholic News Agency

Gaza’s only Catholic priest: ‘For mercy’s sake stop this war and stop killing people’

“Everyone here is pleading for mercy: to take pity, for mercy, for compassion, for them to stop this war, for them to stop shooting… for them to stop killing people, for them to stop bombing,” the ...
Catholic Standard

Situation in Gaza remains ‘critical’ despite peace plan, say Catholic leaders

As Pope Leo XIV urged in Turkey Nov. 27 that “the future of humanity is at stake” with ongoing conflict in the Middle East ...
The Tablet

Jerusalem Patriarch: Holy Land Needs World’s Prayers, Support Amid ‘Disaster’

People in Palestine are living in abject ruin, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa said at a news conference in a suburb of ...
Ecumenical News

Christmas tree lights are up for first time in Bethlehem since Gaza war started

Thousands of Palestinian Christians and Muslims gathered in Bethlehem's Manger Square, in front of the Church of the Nativity ...
National Catholic Register

Gaza’s Only Catholic Priest: ‘For Mercy’s Sake Stop This War and Stop Killing People’

The priest from the Institute of the Incarnate Word, who first came to Gaza in 2005, said he sometimes no longer knows what to say to those who have lost their loved ones. Eucharistic edoration at the ...