A man holds up a phone for the Rev. Gabriel Romanelli, parish priest of Gaza City's Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family, to have a video call with Pope Francis as the pope blesses the ...

The final call lasted 30 seconds. Just enough time to say hello and ask if everyone was okay. But for Gaza’s tiny Christian population, the phone call from Pope Francis was a ray of hope that ...

Members of the clergy hold mass for late Pope Francis at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City on April 21, 2025. Palestinian Christians in Gaza mourned the death of Pope Francis, who had ...

GAZA CITY — “Pope o’clock.” That’s what Gaza residents sheltering in this besieged Catholic parish called the time — usually 8 p.m. local time, 7 p.m. in Rome — when Pope Francis ...

In an address to the Reunion of Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches, Pope Leo XIV lamented the imposition “of the ...

A man holds up a phone for the Rev. Gabriel Romanelli, parish priest of Gaza City's Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family, to have a video call with Pope Francis as the pope blesses the ...

VATICAN CITY − Pope Francis reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in an Easter Sunday message read aloud by an aide as the pontiff, who died on Monday, looked on during a brief ...

Gaza's small Catholic community is mourning the death of Pope Francis, who maintained daily contact with local church leaders throughout the ongoing conflict, the parish priest of the region's ...