"The blanket bombing has stopped," says Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, but "ordinary life has changed very little" By Andrea Tornielli and Francesco Sabatinelli (Vatican News) Gaza remained under Israeli bombardment as of late November — despite the fact that the implementation of the peace plan orchestrated by the US officially “took effect” October [...]
From the November election of Donald Trump to the February speech of JD Vance in Munich, the pace of history has accelerated. And now Pope Francis has fallen ill... By Christopher Hart-Moynihan Pope Francis, who found common cause with Joe Biden’s administration on issues like migration, now faces failing health [...]
As the Gaza war bleeds into Lebanon, the Church labors to stop further escalation The trust between Pope Francis and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa dates back to the beginning of the pontificate. Here, Pizzaballa whispers into the Pope’s ear on May 26, 2014, more than 10 years ago, when Pope Francis visited Israel [...]
One of the less-discussed effects of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, which erupted October 7, is the threat to, and possible elimination of, Christian communities in Gaza and throughout the Holy Land By Christopher Hart-Moynihan Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa (the tallest man in the back) together with other heads of Christian communities in the Holy [...]
Qaroqosh, the Christian capital of Northern Iraq, the largest Christian city in the country, fell to an advancing Islamic terror army, ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), during the night of August 6 to August 7. The Kurdish fighters (the Peshmerga) and Assyrian allies defending the city decided they could not assure the safety of [...]
