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‘Something has gone truly, terribly wrong’: the latest outbreak of anti-Semitism in Britain

April 13, 2024

The atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October 2023 and the subsequent Israeli invasion of Gaza mark a turning point not just in the fraught relationship between Israel and the Palestinians but between religious communities and ethnic groups in the United Kingdom as well. Previous conflicts between Israel and Gaza have resulted in an increase

Israeli historian calls out International Women’s Day for forgetting female hostages in Gaza

March 14, 2024

In the wake of the recent celebration of International Women’s Day a prominent Israeli historian specialising in gender issues has decried how the global event appeared to have no time for the 19 women who remain captives of the insurgent-terrorist group Hamas. Noting that most of the women have likely endured sexual violence, Tamar Herzig was speaking at

Pope phones Biden to discuss escalating Israel-Hamas conflict

October 23, 2023

ROME – Pope Francis issued another public appeal for peace in the Holy Land and throughout the world on Sunday, and made a phone call to United States President Joe Biden to discuss options for ensuring access to humanitarian aid and the release of hostages. Patriarchs and Church leaders in the Holy Land also issued

Latin Patriarch offers himself in exchange for Jewish Israeli hostages in Gaza

October 18, 2023

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and highest ranking prelate in the Holy Land, has said that he would be willing to exchange himself for Israeli children taken hostage by Hamas. The Islamist group are believed to have taken 199 people, among whom a significant number are children, hostage after their latest assault

Israel’s Vatican ambassador says Pope’s comments on right to self-defence filled a ‘vacuum’

October 12, 2023

ROME – Israel’s ambassador to the Vatican has voiced appreciation for Pope Francis’s recent remarks regarding the catastrophic surprise attack by Hamas, saying the pontiff’s call for the release of hostages and his insistence on the right to self-defense filled a “vacuum”. Raphael Schutz, who has served as Israel’s Ambassador to the Holy See since

US bishops call all parties to ‘cessation of violence’ as Biden backs Israel

October 10, 2023

NEW YORK – After an attack on Israel by Hamas and subsequent retaliation by Israel has left more than more than 1,300 people dead and thousands more injured, the U.S. bishops’ conference has called for a cessation of violence from all sides, and for Catholics in the U.S. to pray for peace. “May all who

As Pope appeals for peace, Israel warns Vatican against false ‘parallelisms’

October 09, 2023

ROME – A massive and deadly surprise offensive from Hamas in recent days has prompted Israel to declare war, drawing appeals from Pope Francis and church leaders in the Holy Land for calm, and for international intervention to prevent further bloodshed. At the same time, Israel’s embassy to the Holy See has warned the Vatican

Priest says situation in Gaza is deteriorating a year after war

July 19, 2015

'Compared with a year ago, we're worse off,' says Gaza parish priest Fr Jorge Hernandez