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Pope Leo XIV blesses pilgrims at the weekly General Audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican on Aug. 27, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo laments ‘terror, destruction, and death’ in Gaza

Aug 27
Charles Collins

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

British MP says Catholic Church has role to play for Palestine

Aug 26
Charles Collins

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

Pope Leo greets the faithful in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican on Aug. 13, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

As he arrives in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo pledges Vatican support for peace efforts

Aug 14
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

Smoke rises from an explosion in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel Sunday, July 27, 2025. (Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP.)

Pope Leo says Gaza ‘crushed by hunger’ as Vatican official calls for recognition of State of Palestine

Jul 27
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
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