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Israel-Gaza Conflict

People gather for a prayer vigil in Boulder, Colo., June 2, 2025, beside a makeshift memorial at the scene of an attack that injured multiple people outside the Boulder County Courthouse. The alleged attacker, identified by the FBI as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was armed with a homemade flamethrower and threw two Molotov cocktails at the group June 1, burning multiple victims, police said. Witnesses said Soliman yelled, "Free Palestine." (OSV News photo/Mark Makela, Reuters)

Colorado faith leaders express sorrow over attack on rally for release of Hamas hostages

OSV News|Jun 3, 2025|5 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV begins his weekly general audience praying with visitors and pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 28, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope issues appeal for peace in Ukraine, Gaza amid fresh violence

Elise Ann Allen|May 28, 2025|4 Min Read

A man, with an Israeli flag with a cross in the center, kneels next to emergency personnel early May 22, 2025, as they work at the site where, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, two Israeli Embassy staff were shot dead near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington late May 21. The American Jewish Committee was hosting an evening event at the museum. (OSV News photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)

Bishops call for prayer after deadly attack outside DC's Capital Jewish Museum

Gina Christian and standard-staff-report|May 22, 2025|4 Min Read

People gather in Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb. 20, 2025, on the day the bodies of deceased Israeli hostages, identified at the time by Palestinian militant groups as Oded Lifschitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children Kfir and Ariel Bibas, who were kidnapped during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, are handed over under the terms of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. (OSV News photo/Ammar Awad, Reuters)

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Israel devastated by 'macabre' return of child hostages' bodies as ceasefire holds

Judith Sudilovsky|Feb 21, 2025|6 Min Read

Released Israeli hostage Romi Gonen embraces loved ones at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Jan. 19, 2025, after being held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, in this handout image obtained by Reuters. (OSV News photo/Maayan Toaf/GPO/Handout via Reuters)

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As ceasefire starts, first Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners return home

Judith Sudilovsky|Jan 20, 2025|6 Min Read

A wounded Palestinian child is rushed into a hospital in Gaza City Jan. 15, 2025, following an Israeli strike. Later the same day, a ceasefire deal was reached by Israel and Hamas, following a 15-month war that killed 46,600 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The war was launched after the brutal Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israeli communities that killed 1,200 people. (OSV News/Dawoud Abu Alkas Reuters)

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Holy Land church leaders welcome ceasefire with relief, urge delivering critical aid

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jan 16, 2025|5 Min Read

Palestinians in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, react to news on a Hamas ceasefire deal with Israel Jan. 15, 2025. (OSV News photo/Ramadan Abed, Reuters)

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Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire, hostage agreement, as Gaza Catholics rejoice

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jan 15, 2025|4 Min Read

From the window of his studio in the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis gives his blessing to people gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for the recitation of the Angelus prayer Oct. 13, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope calls for Mideast cease-fire; prays for peace in Ukraine, Haiti

Cindy Wooden|Oct 14, 2024|3 Min Read

Pope Francis stands with Raphael Schutz, the Israeli ambassador to the Holy See, Issa Kassissieh, Palestinian ambassador to the Holy See, and representatives of Rome's Jewish and Muslim communities by an olive tree in the Vatican Gardens in this June 7, 2024 file photo. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope’s use of fraught verse on Gaza anniversary raises troubling questions

John L. Allen Jr.|Oct 13, 2024|6 Min Read

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for the Service of Charity and papal almoner, stands with a basket at the entrance of the Paul VI Hall in Vatican City, where Synod on Synodality delegates meet, to collect alms on Oct. 7, 2024, the first anniversary of Hamas' attack on Israel and subsequent Israel-Hamas war. That same night the funds were received by Vatican's embassy in Jerusalem and were transferred to the Holy Family Parish in Gaza City. (OSV News photo/courtesy Dicastery for the Service of Charity)

Pope sends $67,000 to Gaza parish, with $35,000 from synod delegates

Paulina Guzik|Oct 9, 2024|5 Min Read

Pope Francis prays the rosary for peace with members of the Synod of Bishops, pilgrims, ambassadors accredited to the Vatican and Catholics from the Diocese of Rome in the Basilica of St. Mary Major Oct. 6, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Powerful impose war on others, world shows indifference, pope says

Carol Glatz|Oct 7, 2024|4 Min Read

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, walks through the ruins of buildings in Gaza City. He visited northern Gaza Strip May 16-19, 2024, during Pentecost. In a letter to the faithful Sept. 26, Cardinal Pizzaballa called for a day of prayer and penance on the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas and the start of the Israel-Hamas war. (OSV News photo/courtesy Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)

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Cardinal urges day of prayer, penance on anniversary of Hamas attack on Israel

OSV News|Sep 26, 2024|3 Min Read

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