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Top church leaders visited Gaza on Friday after its only Catholic church was struck by an Israeli shell the day before, an ...

Top church leaders visited Gaza yesterday after its only Catholic church was struck by an Israeli shell on Thursday. The attack killed three people and wounded 10, including a priest who had developed ...

The official decree signed on June 20 said that a baby born in 2007 was inexplicably healed after a doctor prayed to a 19th century Spanish priest, Father Salvador Valera Parra.

Pope Leo XIV called for a ceasefire and an end to the war in Gaza. The Israeli strike July 17 hit the Holy Family Catholic ...

The religious delegation to Gaza included two patriarchs from Jerusalem — Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa ...

Leo XIV's appeals for peace, especially in the Holy Land, have mostly been boilerplate and lacking in passion. If he wishes, ...

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with Pope Leo XIV and thanked him for the Vatican’s efforts to help return children taken by Russia during the war ...