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Pope hints at Lampedusa visit in strong echo of Francis on migrants and refugees

Category: Church in the Middle East | Crux

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Smoke rises from an explosion, allegedly caused by an Israeli strike in Doha, Qatar, on Sep. 9, 2025. (Credit: UGC via AP.)

The pope calls Israeli attack on Hamas leadership in Qatar ‘really serious’

Sep 9
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Archaeological find confirms 7th century Christian presence on UAE island

Aug 25
Crux Staff

Ma'ale Adumim municipality in the West Bank. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

British bishops condemn Israeli plan to expand settlement in West Bank

Aug 23
Charles Collins

Humanitarian aid is airdropped to Palestinians over Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (Credit: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP.)

Catholic Church holds day of prayer and fasting for peace in Gaza

Aug 22
Charles Collins

People take part in a protest calling for an end of the war in Gaza in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Aug. 16, 2025. (Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP.)

Church in Ireland calls for prayers for Gaza on Sunday

Aug 19
Charles Collins

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23, 2022, at the U.N. headquarters. The U.N. General Assembly is expected to vote Friday, May 10, 2024, on a resolution that would grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and call on the Security Council to favorably reconsider its request to become the 194th member of the United Nations. (Credit: Julia Nikhinson/AP.)

At United Nations, Vatican calls for Two-State Solution in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Jul 31
Charles Collins

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, The Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, speak to journalists on July 22, 2015. (Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.)

Latin Patriarch says ‘dignity of the human spirit’ remains in Gaza

Jul 23
Charles Collins

Palestinians gather around the bodies of Dr. Marwan al-Sultan, the director of the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, his wife, his daughter, and his son-in-law, after they were killed in an Israeli airstrike, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on July 2, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem says war in Gaza is ‘inexcusable’

Jul 22
Crux Staff

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, surrounded by ministers from the government attends a session of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, July 14, 2025. (Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP.)

Israeli ambassador to Holy See says actions of Hamas reason for war in Gaza

Jul 22
Charles Collins

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and Patriarch Theophilos III of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem visit Gaza after Thursday’s attack on the Church of the Holy Family, July 18, 2025. (Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.)

Pope Leo XIV calls Cardinal Pizzaballa about attack on Gaza church

Jul 18
Charles Collins

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