On Nov. 2, pope discusses latest developments in Gaza, West Bank and Jerusalem with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian news agency WAFA reports; Holy Land Christians appeal for help as the region empties of pilgrims.
As the world prayed for peace in the Holy Land Oct. 27, Pope Francis called for the war to halt and prayers to continue during the Angelus Oct. 29, as death toll in Gaza passed 8,000 and Israeli troops gradually increased their
Amid the Israel-Hamas war, more than half a million children across the world prayed the rosary for peace.
Aid to the Church in Need launched the global rosary campaign in 2005, and currently partners with the Shrine of Fatima, Portugal, the Pope's Worldwide
The Holy See acknowledges Israel's legitimacy as a sovereign nation and maintains diplomatic relations with the nation. In his latest column, Msgr. Owen Campion writes that popes have engaged with Israeli leaders and denounced anti-Semitism. After the recent Hamas attacks, Cardinal Pietro
While Palestinian officials said the hospital was hit in an Israeli strike and had killed some 500 people, the Israel Defense Forces said intelligence showed Palestinian Islamic Jihad group was responsible for the "failed rocket launch" that struck the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.
"An
In an Oct. 13 statement, the patriarchs and heads of the churches of Jerusalem urged "the people of our congregations and all those of goodwill around the world to observe a Day of Prayer and Fasting" on Oct. 17.
The efforts are "in
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, told reporters during an online meeting Oct. 16 that he is willing to do "anything" to "bring to freedom and bring home the children" taken into Gaza during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel,
Although it is easy to feel powerless in the face of war, "prayer is the meek and holy force to oppose the diabolical force of hatred, terrorism and war," Pope Francis said. Pope Francis again pleas for peace in the Holy Land
Just before the children in her kindergarten class went on vacation for the Jewish Sukkot festival, Romina Shvalb, 42, a kindergarten teacher in the quiet Israeli kibbutz of Nir Oz near the Gaza border, had baked challah -- the braided sweet bread
Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, called for prayers for peace in the Holy Land and decried the "continued tensions and violence that erupted into warfare between Gaza