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As a peace deal nears, Father Gabriel Romanelli, pastor of Gaza City’s Catholic parish, said the entire Gaza Strip has experienced a “tsunami” of destruction.

“We hope we can dedicate all our energy now not to rebuild just the infrastructure but the human life devastated by this war.”

In his own post, Netanyahu said only, “With God’s help we will bring them all home,” an apparent reference to the hostages.

The Alaska summit has failed to address “fundamental moral and geopolitical questions,” said Ukrainian Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of Philadelphia.

The Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemorations have “awakened in the world a rightful rejection of war as a means of resolving conflicts,” the pope said.

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.

PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) — A bipartisan resolution to return thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia is “something that every human being with a heart should understand,” Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. …

A move to hold talks between Ukraine and Russia at the Vatican appeared to gain momentum May 19, following a call between the U.S. and Russian presidents.