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Conflict in the Middle East

For Gazans, the deep silence of hunger has replaced noise of daily life

August 13, 2025
By Diaa Ostaz
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News

The streets of Gaza are quieter than they used to be — not because peace has returned. The deep silence of hunger has replaced the noise of daily life.

Radio Interview: The situation in Gaza with Catholic Near East Welfare Association

August 11, 2025
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview

In this episode of Catholic Review Radio, Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Joseph Hazboun, regional director for Catholic Near East Welfare Association, a pontifical mission. Hazboun says the situation in the Gaza Strip is unspeakably tragic.

Ambassadors call attention to starving Israeli hostages, Gazan civilians

August 7, 2025
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News

Pope Leo XIV, like Pope Francis before him, consistently has called on Hamas to release the hostages it kidnapped in Israel almost two years ago and has pleaded with Israel to allow the delivery of more humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.

Children of Abraham: Let us find another way to peace

August 6, 2025
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Conflict in the Middle East

These brothers, Arabs and Jews alike, must face the fact that as they spill each other’s blood and destroy their own family they’re perpetuating the age-old curse of rootless dispossession down the decades. They must admit their culpability for miseries, past and present.

Lebanese Catholic clergy commemorate Beirut port explosion victims five years later

August 4, 2025
By Dale Gavlak
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News

Lebanon’s Catholic clergy celebrated a commemorative Mass and held a vigil in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, remembering those who perished five years earlier, on Aug. 4, 2020, in the catastrophic Beirut port explosion.

Pope Leo stands with youth in Gaza, Ukraine, calls for dialogue, not war

August 4, 2025
By Junno Arocho Esteves
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News, Youth Ministry

In a message of solidarity and peace, Pope Leo XIV said the Catholic Church stands with young people suffering in war-torn areas, including Gaza and Ukraine.

Against the odds, CRS has delivered aid to 1.7 million in Gaza since 2023

August 1, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News

Despite daunting odds, Catholic Relief Services and its on-the-ground partners have managed to deliver aid to 1.7 million people in Gaza since 2023, according to new data.

IDF says Gaza Holy Family Parish hit was errant mortar round that veered off course

July 23, 2025
By Judith Sudilovsky
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News

An Israel Defense Forces investigation concluded that the strike on the Holy Family Parish compound on July 17 was the result of an accidental mortar round that veered off course during “operational activity” by IDF troops in the area of Gaza City, the IDF said in a July 23 statement.

Peace by force is a ‘troubling’ idea, Iran cardinal says

July 23, 2025
By Junno Arocho Esteves
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News

The recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran has brought about fear and anxiety in the country and tested the faith of its small Catholic community, said Belgian Cardinal Dominique Mathieu of Tehran-Isfahan.

U.S. to withdraw, again, from UNESCO over Palestine and UN development goals

July 23, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News

The Trump administration on July 22 said the United States would withdraw from the United Nations’ cultural agency UNESCO, a group that has partnered with the Holy See on human development and cultural heritage projects.

Christ is not absent from Gaza, but crucified in the wounded, patriarchs say after visit

July 22, 2025
By Judith Sudilovsky
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News

Amid the destruction witnessed during their July 18–20 pastoral visit to Gaza, following the Israeli shelling of the Holy Family Parish church compound that killed three people and injured 10, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III said they found something more enduring — “the dignity of the human spirit.”

Syrian Christian leaders say Islamist government can’t protect them or Druze

July 22, 2025
By Dale Gavlak
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News

Syrian Christian leaders say they cannot trust the Islamist-led Syrian government of Ahmed al-Sharaa to provide the safety they need after a week of deadly clashes that claimed the lives of 1,000 people in the southern region of Sweida and urged international protection.

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