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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Sitting in the Vatican Gardens with the dome of St. Peter's Basilica as a backdrop, Pope Francis told cardinals and diplomats, including the ambassadors of Israel and Palestine, "Every day I pray that this war will finally end." With a representative of Rome's Jewish community and a representative of the city's Muslim community in attendance June 7, the pope repeated his call for a cease-fire, his appeal to Hamas to release all the hostages it kidna...

Pope Francis Monday met with family members of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas, offering his solidarity and what Israel’s Ambassador to the Holy See said was a “morale boost” as they continue wondering about the condition of their loved ones.

Pope Francis on Monday met with family members of several Israeli hostages being held by Hamas.

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What happened this past week is fairly remarkable: A pope addressed a letter to Jews, and very few reacted. It’s almost a “tree falling in the forest exercise” – if a pope issues a document and almost no one responds, did it really appear at all?

Israeli Ambassador to the Holy See Raphael Schutz meets with Pope Francis on February 2, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Feb 3, 2024 / 14:11 pm (CNA). In a letter addressed to “my Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel" and released ...

‘My heart is close to you, to the Holy Land, to all the peoples who inhabit it, Israelis and Palestinians, and I pray that the desire for peace may prevail in...

Israel’s ambassador to the Holy See has said the Vatican’s repeated push for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict fails to consider regional nuances and the desire to commit “genocide” against the Israeli people.

In their annual Christmas message, Christian church leaders in the Holy Land called for an end to the current war in Gaza and said the commemoration of Jesus’s birth is a sign that hope is present even amid darkness.

In an interview with Crux, published Dec. 22, the ambassador, Raphael Schutz, denied that IDF soldiers targeted the women.