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 ...

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 ...

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 maintained ...

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 ...

GAZA CITY — For most people around the world, Pope Francis was a religious leader seen on video or read about in the news. ... But the Gaza parishioners say Pope Francis never let it drop.

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 ...

GAZA CITY — For most people around the world, Pope Francis was a religious leader seen on video or read about in the news. For the congregation of a tiny Roman Catholic church in Gaza, he was the ...