Tag: Israel

A ceasefire between Israel and Iran is bringing a measure of relief to the Holy Land, but Catholic humanitarians there told OSV News that real and lasting peace must ultimately be achieved.

A couple found themselves scrambling down to a bomb shelter in the Beit Joseph Guest House of the Benedictine Dormition Abbey early 13 June, as Israel launched what it said was a preemptive strike against Iran's nuclear program.

Israel and Iran reached a ceasefire agreement after 12 days of warfare, President Donald Trump announced on social media 23 June—a day after Pope Leo XIV warned world leaders they were headed for an "irreparable abyss."

As continued bombardment between Israel and Iran entered its fifth day, Catholic clergy in both countries called for peace and an end to further bloodshed in the Holy Land and the Middle East.

As conflict in the Middle East escalated with Israeli airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran and retaliatory drone attacks on Israel, Pope Leo XIV appealed for restraint and renewed the church's calls for nuclear disarmament and peaceful dialogue.

Tens of thousands of mourners 26 February lined the streets as the funeral procession for Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir, made its way nearly 40 miles from Rishon Lezion in central Israel to Tsoher Regional Cemetery in southern Israel.

Two Bankstown Hospital nurses have been stood down from their positions after a video surfaced of them claiming they would kill any Israeli patients they came across.

A rise in anti-Semitic attacks in the country means Jewish Australians have a "particular claim on the support and protection" of all, particularly Christians in their local contexts, says ACBC President and Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe in an open letter.

In Lebanon, hospitals and the health care sector have become the front and centre of attention—and an imminent target—following the most recent bout of violence due to heavy clashes in southern Lebanon between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters.

The Dutch bishops' conference and Amsterdam's St Nicholas Parish reacted with horror to the violence against Israeli soccer supporters in the city 7 November.

Lebanon is a country already devastated by economic crisis, a political impasse and the largest number of refugees per capita and per square mile in the world which has now been inflated with the recent crisis and war.

As Israel has escalated its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon across a United Nations-drawn boundary between the two countries, more than a million people have fled their homes.