HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The season of giving has many reflecting on those stuck in the grips of violence and unrest. In his own Christmas Eve homily, Pope Francis prayed for peace in Palestine, ...

Religious leaders started getting together after Oct. 7, 2023, in the hope of preventing a repeat of Arab-Jewish violence ...

Pope Leo has expressed his deep sorrow over an Israeli strike that hit Gaza's only Catholic church. The strike killed at least three Palestinian Christians sheltering inside, including two women. And ...

Palestinian Christians wait to pray at the midnight Christmas Eve Mass out side the Deir Al Latin Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, 2021. (Adel Hana | AP) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An ...

Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon, in an unusually direct appeal during a solemn, ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday appealed for Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, calling the situation in the Palestinian enclave "yet more worrying and saddening". "I ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV and his top diplomats told Israel’s president Thursday that a two-state solution was the “only way out of the war,” as the Vatican called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, ...

''I once again issue a strong appeal, both to the parties involved and to the international community so that an end may be put to the conflict in the Holy Land, which has caused so much terror, ...

The new pontiff’s usual Christmas remarks prompted unease from European media outlets, and they raised increasingly common ...

Pope Leo made an appeal for "one full day of peace throughout the world" in a Christmas address outside Castel Gandolfo in ...