Tag: Israel
Cardinal Pizzaballa’s offer to change places with children in Gaza teaches...
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Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa’s recent offer to exchange himself for the children held hostage in the Gaza Strip by...
Catholic colleges and universities in U.S condemn attack on Israel and...
Catholic colleges and universities throughout the U.S. have condemned a devastating attack on Israel, while calling for prayers for peace.
Peter Kilpatrick, president of The...
Kindergarten teacher in Israel experiencing ‘total silence’ in hunt for missing...
JERUSALEM -- Just before the children in her kindergarten class went on vacation for the Jewish Sukkot festival, Romina Shvalb, 42, a kindergarten teacher...
With the death toll rising, Jesuit Father John Paul, students in...
A Jesuit priest who directs an ecumenical institute in Jerusalem told OSV News he feels "a deep sense of compassion for what Israelis and...
Pope Francis on clash in Middle East: ‘Hatred, violence and vengeance...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis condemned Hamas' terrorist attacks on Israel and pleaded with the militants to free their hostages unharmed, but he also...
As pilgrims pray, Israeli families mourn loved ones and Gaza undergoes...
JERUSALEM -- Pilgrims who were in Israel following a surprise terrorist attack by Hamas terrorists against civilian communities in southern Israel Oct. 7 lit...
After cease fire, Pope Francis calls for prayers for forgiveness, coexistence...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has called on the world's Catholics to pray May 22 for dialogue, forgiveness and peaceful coexistence in the Holy...
U.S. Bishops call on Israelis and Palestinians to end the violence...
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace called on Israelis and Palestinians to end the violence in...
Arson attempt at Basilica of All Nations at Gethsemane Church in...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli police arrested a Jewish man after he allegedly threw a firebomb inside the Basilica of All Nations at Gethsemane Church on...
Evangelicals get visas to go to Israel, but Catholics left out,...
JERUSALEM — Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed astonishment that a large group of evangelical Christians from the U.S. received visas to come...