Humanitarian Crisis

A U.S. bishop is calling for peace and humanitarian aid to Lebanon, where the U.S.-Israel war on Iran has spread with devastating consequences.

CNEWA Pontifical Mission is ministering to Christians who remain in the south, caught in the crosshairs between the Israeli military and Hezbollah.

JERUSALEM (OSV News) — In the Gaza Strip, the fragile calm following the Oct. 13 Israel-Hamas peace deal has brought little relief to the enclave’s small Christian community. While portions …

“The people are living in very poor conditions due to insecurity, flooding and pollution,” the bishop said, urging “dignified living conditions” be restored.

 The parish priest of Gaza’s Christian community admitted his small flock is exhausted by war and a severe lack of food.

Church leaders in Congo cautiously welcomed a U.S.-brokered July 27 peace agreement to end a long-running conflict in the east of the country.

(OSV News) — As an uneasy calm returned to the Congolese city of Goma, following a unilateral ceasefire declared by the rebels, people began burying the dead, and agencies rushed …

(OSV News) — The long-awaited and elusive ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has silenced bombs and halted air raids on the Gaza Strip, for the time being, but the humanitarian situation …

(OSV News) — Cardinal Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla of Juba, South Sudan, called for restraint and compassion, as the alleged killings of South Sudanese refugees in the war-torn Sudan sparked …

(OSV News) — Amid what a Catholic charity called “unimaginable” suffering of civilians trapped in civil war brutality in Sudan, the United States declared that one of the fighting factions is …