Category: Middle East
Holy Land patriarchs call for rapid ceasefire as conflict in Gaza nears one year mark
JERUSALEM (OSV News): With the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip approaching one-year mark, the…
Pope joins calls for investigation into 2020 Beirut port explosion
VATICAN (CNS): Four years after the catastrophic 4 August 2020 explosion that rocked the port…
Interreligious dialogue currently in ‘crisis’ says patriarch of Jerusalem
VATICAN (CNS): Dialogue between religious communities in the Holy Land is “in crisis,” Pierbattista Cardinal…
Pope pleads for restraint in Middle East after killing of Hamas leader
VATICAN (CNS): As fears of a widening war in the Middle East grew again in…
Gaza church escapes damage from missile, children killed in Golan Heights mourned
(OSV News): “Suddenly, we were sitting in a hall next to the church, when we…
