Catholic Review
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News
As the Israel-Hamas war edges toward the one-year mark, OSV News spoke with Jesuit Father John Paul, rector of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem, ahead of his return to Israel following a brief visit to the U.S. in early August.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
As fears of a widening war in the Middle East grew again in early August, Pope Francis pleaded with the region’s leaders to exercise restraint and engage in dialogue.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News
The staff of the international Catholic relief arm Caritas Jerusalem are expressing praise and gratitude for God’s seeming miraculous intervention on a Gaza church compound July 29.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News
The Israeli military July 10 called for all Palestinians to leave Gaza City and head south, as the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace urged civilians not be targeted and “remain outside the sphere of combat.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Religious Freedom, War in Ukraine, World News
The heroic work and witness of the Eastern churches in some of the world’s most conflict-ridden regions was highlighted at the annual Catholic Media Conference held in Atlanta in June.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem issued a strong condemnation after the Israeli military targeted a Catholic school in Gaza that killed four people, including a senior Hamas official.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis once again renewed his call for a cease-fire in Gaza following the rescue of four hostages that led to what officials in Gaza said was the killing of more than 270 Palestinians in an Israeli rescue operation that one European Union diplomat deemed a “massacre.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, World News
The Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel and Israel’s massive military response in Gaza have led to strong papal pleas for peace but also to Vatican-Israeli diplomatic tensions.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News
As tensions and the number of victims mount in southern Gaza Strip, Catholic Relief Services said it has not been able to get humanitarian aid through to the southern Gaza Strip since May 6 and it no longer has any supplies left in its warehouses in that area, said Jason Knapp, CRS country director for Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, described the small resilient community of the Holy Family Parish compound in Gaza City as one with “steadfast faith,” amid horrific destruction and constant bombardment following his return from a four-day pastoral visit during Pentecost.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News
In a previously unpublicized visit, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, entered the Gaza Strip May 16, reaching Holy Family Parish for his first pastoral visit since the outbreak of Israel-Hamas war following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, Giving, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
True change comes to people’s lives and communities when both spiritual and material needs receive care, said the president of a Catholic relief and development organization based in Boca Raton, Fla.
