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 ...

I've been forced to turn away from an institution I trusted to offer spiritual direction.

Christian worshippers arrive to attend Christmas Day Mass at the Roman Catholic Church of Holy Family in Gaza City on December 25, 2017. (Majdi Fathi / NurPhoto / Getty) October 14, 2023.

Francis, who died Monday at 88, made near-nightly calls to the Holy Family Church in Gaza throughout the war as he called for an end to Israel's offensive in the enclave.

Father Gabriel Romanelli, the pastor of Holy Family Parish, the only Roman Catholic church in Gaza, gave an update Dec. 1 on the plight of the Christians in northern Gaza as the Israeli-Hamas war ...

In an interview with Vatican News, the Rev. Gabriel Romanelli, the parish priest of the Church of the Holy Family, the only Roman Catholic church in Gaza, says Pope Francis has called from the ...

The war has also led to widespread devastation in Gaza, home to the Holy Family Church, whose pastor, Father Ibrahim Romanelli, was in daily communication with Francis until his death on April 21.

In the wake of two deaths at Holy Family Catholic Church, Palestinian Christians are weighing the costs of speaking out against the Israeli government.

Gaza’s oldest mosque, destroyed in an airstrike, was once a temple to Philistine and Roman gods, a Byzantine and Catholic church, and had engravings of Jewish ritual objects ...

Palestinian Christians attend the Palm Sunday mass at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, on March 28, 2021. A Christian mother and daughter were shot dead by an Israeli soldier on the ...

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