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Pope Leo XIV receives call from Netanyahu after Gaza church attack
Jul 18, 2025Pope Leo XIV received a phone call Friday from Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, following yesterday’s Israeli army attack on Holy Family Church in Gaza.
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Jul 18, 2025Both religious leaders led an ecclesiastical delegation into Gaza to “offer condolences and solidarity” with both Christian and non-Christian families.
Israel says Holy Family Church in Gaza was ‘mistakenly’ hit, ‘regrets’ damage
Jul 18, 2025Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shared a post on X saying “fragments from a shell” hit the parish church, which has become a shelter for more than 500 people.
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Pope to Cardinal Pizzaballa after Gaza church attack: ‘It is time to stop this slaughter’
Jul 18, 2025“It is time to stop this slaughter.” With these words, Pope Leo XIV expressed his firm condemnation of the Israeli army’s attack on the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza.
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Pizzaballa, Patriarch Theophilos III visit Holy Family Church in Gaza after Israeli attack
Israel says Holy Family Church in Gaza was ‘mistakenly’ hit, ‘regrets’ damage
Pope to Cardinal Pizzaballa after Gaza church attack: ‘It is time to stop this slaughter’
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Gaza church attack: Without warnings by priest ‘it would have been a massacre’
Jul 17, 2025Father Yusuf Asad, 49, assistant parochial vicar at Holy Family Church in Gaza, had just celebrated morning Mass when a loud bang sounded. At around 10:20 a.m. local time, a projectile hit the building.
Catholic youth urge European leaders to address migrant crisis with charity, understanding
Jul 17, 2025This year’s written contribution by the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) Youth Net centers on solutions for “fostering integration of migrants in the European Union.”
UPDATE: Catholic Sen. Tim Kaine blasts GOP for slashing aid funding
Jul 17, 2025Kaine on Wednesday called the cuts an “attack on the religious organizations so that they cannot do the work that their faith in their Creator compels them to do.”
