Middle East

Father Gabriel Romanelli of Holy Family Parish in Gaza, who was injured July 17, shared his latest thoughts in a message to Aid to the Church in Need. 

The recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran has brought about fear and anxiety in the country and tested the faith of its small Catholic community, said Belgian Cardinal Dominique …

“It is time to end this nonsense, end the war and put the common good of people as the top priority.”

“We are not minorities, we are part of Syria and have lived here for hundreds of years. We are the people of this land,” said Father Toni Butros.

JERUSALEM (OSV News) — Parishioners of Gaza’s Holy Family Church are feeling “horror” and almost a sense of “desperation” after an Israeli tank shell struck the church, killing three elderly people …

Father Gabriel Romanelli said Israel’s strike on his Holy Family Parish in Gaza City was “terrible” as Cardinal Parolin called Gaza’s situation “unbearable.”

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The “barbarity of war” and forced displacement of people have to end, and civilians and places of worship have to be protected, Pope Leo XIV implored. …

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called for “harsh consequences” against Israeli settlers who attacked a church in the West Bank village of Taybeh.

JERUSALEM (OSV News) — Amid mounting international concern, leaders across the globe condemned the July 17 attack on the Holy Family Parish in Gaza City, which left three dead and at …

As alarming sectarian violence swept through Syria in the third week of July, Christian communities in the region experienced a new wave of persecution. Attacks on the country’s Christian, Druze …