2 killed in Israeli strike on Catholic church in Gaza
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According to a statement from the Holy See Press Office, the Pope received the call at Castel Gandolfo, where he is on vacation.
The president of the USCCB has called for peace and an “immediate ceasefire” following a deadly attack on the only Catholic church in Gaza.
Pope Leo said on Thursday he hopes to travel to Turkey later this year for the 1,700th anniversary of a major Christian Church summit, in what would be the first foreign trip of his papacy.
The Holy Father placed the call to Cardinal Pizzaballa as the cardinal was traveling to the Gaza Strip with Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III.
Pope Leo XIV encouraged encounter and unity in a message to the players and spectators of a soccer game to support sick and injured children from war zones.