Category: Middle East
Filipino students chip in to aid Palestinian refugees
MANILA (UCAN): Catholic students in the Philippines started a fundraising drive to help more than…
Muted Christmas in Bethlehem
(OSV News): Christmas in Bethlehem was celebratory but not as festive as usual this year,…
Broken truce in Gaza means only death and misery, pope laments
VATICAN (Agencies): “It pains me that the truce has been broken: this means death, destruction,…
Pope held separate meetings with Israelis, Palestinians at Vatican
VATICAN (CNS): On the eve of the four day ceasefire, brokered with the help of…
Hopes that Israel-Hamas truce may be extended for five more days
JERUSALEM (OSV News): A spokesperson for the Israeli government said that it would be open…
