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Conflict in the Middle East

Pope condemns ‘hypocrisy’ of exalting peace while waging war

December 23, 2024
By Justin McLellan
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News

Pope Francis sharply criticized the global “hypocrisy” of nations advocating for peace while profiting from war, calling for renewed efforts toward dialogue and reconciliation.

Cardinal Pizzaballa tells Gaza Christians they are ‘the light’ of church

December 23, 2024
By OSV News
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News

“You have become the light of our Church in the entire world,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa told Gaza Christians Dec. 22 during a pre-Christmas visit aiming to bring the joy of the season to the suffering Christian community in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli minister asks pope to clarify remarks about genocide claims in Gaza

December 20, 2024
By Carol Glatz
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News

Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism asked Pope Francis to clarify his remarks about the need to investigate whether the current war in Gaza constitutes a genocide.

Why I’m spending Christmas in Bethlehem this year

December 20, 2024
By Father Patrick Briscoe
OSV News
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Conflict in the Middle East

The small, struggling city where Jesus Christ was born holds a deeper urgency — and a quiet, heartbreaking beauty.

King Charles III attends Advent service of London branch of pontifical charity

December 17, 2024
By OSV News
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, World News

King Charles III attended a special Advent service Dec. 17 at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mayfair, London. The event, co-hosted by Pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need, celebrated the resilience of Christian communities and marked the 10th anniversary of the Islamic State group invasion of Mosul and the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq.

Pope, Palestinian president meet at Vatican

December 12, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News

As the fighting in Gaza drags on, Pope Francis welcomed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the Vatican.

With Assad’s fall, Syria’s papal nuncio prays for nation’s reconciliation, new prosperity

December 8, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News

The apostolic nuncio to Syria says he hopes the war-torn nation will “move toward reconciliation” and at least “some prosperity” under democratic rule, following former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster in a lightning offensive by rebel groups.

Christians in Aleppo feel an uneasy calm amid rebel takeover of Syrian city

December 5, 2024
By Dale Gavlak
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News

An uneasy calm hangs over Aleppo, Christian leaders report, following the recent lightning takeover of Syria’s second-largest city by Islamist rebels driving out forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Concerns also mount over government airstrikes.

Christmas celebratory again in Holy Land amid ongoing war; patriarch urges pilgrims to return

December 5, 2024
By OSV News
OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News

Christmas this season in the Holy Land will be celebratory, despite ongoing bloodshed and war, the patriarchs of the Holy Land said, as Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa encouraged pilgrims to come back to the birthplace of Jesus.

Catholic agency ‘will follow’ Lebanon’s displaced ‘wherever they settle’ after ceasefire

December 3, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News

The head of a Catholic humanitarian agency in Lebanon told OSV News the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire appears to be intact, as he and his team vow to assist those displaced by the conflict “wherever they settle.”

Ceasefire, dialogue are the only paths to peace, pope says

December 2, 2024
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News

Pope Francis praised a new ceasefire reached in Lebanon, prayed for Israeli hostages and Palestinians in Gaza, and appealed to world leaders to help put an end to the war in Ukraine.

Lebanon’s hospitals are on the front lines amid ongoing violence of war

November 29, 2024
By Leo Morawiecki
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News

In Lebanon, hospitals and the health care sector have become the front and center of attention — and an imminent target — following the most recent bout of violence due to heavy clashes in southern Lebanon between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters.

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