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Conflict in the Middle East

At National Prayer Breakfast, Biden calls for Americans to ‘pray for peace’ amid conflict

February 1, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News

At the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 1, President Joe Biden called for prayers for a peaceful resolution of conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and he urged Americans to be united in the face of challenges.

‘We need a generation to forget’ on both sides of conflict, says Palestinian bishop

February 1, 2024
By Michael Kelly
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News

Auxiliary Bishop William Shomali of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem told OSV News that the level of destruction in Gaza is unprecedented and many residents there are “starving.”

CRS head, eyewitness to Gaza Strip horrors, urges cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war

January 31, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News

As the Israel-Hamas war enters its fourth month, ending hostilities “all around” to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip has become critical, the head of a U.S.-based Catholic aid agency told OSV News.

Children from Gaza arrive in Rome for medical treatment

January 30, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News

Ten children from Gaza in need of medical attention arrived in Rome on a military plane late Jan. 29, the first group of young patients who will receive treatment in Italy thanks to the lobbying of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land and negotiations involving the governments of Italy, Israel, Palestine and Egypt.

Pope calls for global cease-fire; says humanity is on brink of abyss

January 29, 2024
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News

Today’s wars and conflicts have put humanity on the brink of the abyss, Pope Francis said, calling for a worldwide cease-fire.

Pope: Remembering the Holocaust reminds people hatred is never justified

January 26, 2024
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News

Pope Francis highlighted the importance of remembering and condemning the horror of the Holocaust, underlining that hatred and violence can never be justified.

Jerusalem church official: Gaza situation ‘extremely catastrophic’

January 23, 2024
By Barb Fraze
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News

The situation in the Gaza Strip is “extremely catastrophic,” and people are dying not only from violence but from preventable illnesses, said the CEO of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Cardinal Filoni makes pilgrimage to Holy Land as sign of peace, solidarity

January 18, 2024
By David Aquije
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News

Cardinal Fernando Filoni, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, an ancient chivalric order of the Catholic Church rooted in the Holy Land, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land as a sign of peace and dialogue during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

Two U.S. prelates call for ‘immediate and total’ ceasefire in Gaza Strip

January 17, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News

Two U.S. prelates are urging an “immediate and total” ceasefire in the war that has convulsed the Gaza Strip for more than 100 days, while condemning Hamas and urging the release of Israeli hostages taken by the Palestinian militants.

Christians’ testimony in Gaza a ‘true miracle’ amid nonstop war, says Holy Land guardian

January 15, 2024
By Michael Kelly
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News

As the world marked 100 days since the Hamas militants attacks that unleashed hell in the Holy Land, images of the children from Holy Family Parish — the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip — dressed in white albs to receive the sacrament were a stark and welcome contrast in a land that has had little reason to smile since Oct. 7.

Modern war is ‘crime against humanity,’ pope says

January 15, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News

With massive civilian deaths and the destruction of cities and their infrastructure, modern “war is in itself a crime against humanity,” Pope Francis said.

Catholic aid agency’s staff remain in Yemen amid coalition strikes

January 12, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News

Staff from Caritas Poland will remain in Yemen following U.S. and U.K.-led strikes on Houthi rebels, mission head Radoslaw Sterna told OSV News.

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