2 killed in Israeli strike on Catholic church in Gaza
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It is time to stop this slaughter.” With these words, Pope Leo XIV expressed his firm condemnation of the Israeli army’s attack on the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza.
Pope Leo XIV held a phone conversation with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu following a military strike on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza.
According to a statement from the Holy See Press Office, the Pope received the call at Castel Gandolfo, where he is on vacation.
Pope Leo said on Thursday he hopes to travel to Turkey later this year for the 1,700th anniversary of a major Christian Church summit, in what would be the first foreign trip of his papacy.
Pope Leo XIV encouraged encounter and unity in a message to the players and spectators of a soccer game to support sick and injured children from war zones.
Reflecting on the Parable of the Good Samaritan, the Pope called for a ‘revolution of love.’ This Sunday was the first time in 12 years that a pope has led the Marian prayer from the lakeside town.