Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News
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 ground activity in the Gaza Strip, without calling it an “invasion.”
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview
Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talked with Michael La Civita, director of communications for CNEWA, and his colleague Joseph Hazboun, regional director of CNEWA’s Jerusalem office about the impact of the war on those who live in Israel and Gaza and how CNEWA is helping meet the needs on the ground.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
The day after Pope Francis called for a cease-fire in the Holy Land, his foreign minister spoke by phone with the foreign minister of Iran, “reiterating the absolute need to avoid escalating the conflict,” the Vatican press office said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
Pope Francis asked Mary to look mercifully upon the human family, “which has strayed from the path of peace,” and entrusted to her protection the world’s regions and nations at war.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Synodality, War in Ukraine, World News
Carrying candles into an empty St. Peter’s Basilica, participants in the synod on synodality prayed the rosary for peace Oct. 25.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News
As the Israel-Hamas war nears its fourth week, the pastor of Gaza’s only Catholic church urged prayers for peace, the release of hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid, telling OSV News his parishioners are experiencing “a terrible situation, a crazy situation.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis again called for the release of hostages taken from Israel by Hamas militants and for allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
Amid wars around the world, particularly in Ukraine and the Holy Land, the Catholic Church needs to speak out on nonviolence as a necessary option for any hope of peace, said a representative of Pax Christi International, urging the pope to write an encyclical on nonviolence and just peace.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News
The Sister of Charity of the Incarnate Word from Peru, who is serving in the Catholic parish in Gaza, recalled the pain of watching the funeral of Christians killed in an Oct. 19 blast at a Greek Orthodox church.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis called for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza and spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden to discuss the humanitarian crisis and the need to de-escalate violence in the region.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Israel and Ukraine both face existential threats and deserve U.S. aid as they fend off conflict, President Joe Biden said in an Oval Office address to the nation on Oct. 19.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News
An explosion at the St. Porphyrios Greek Orthodox Church campus in Gaza has left the administration building in ruins, and at least 17 people dead, though numbers have not yet been officially confirmed.
