Israel has freed 90 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. The release comes early on Monday, more than seven hours after three ...

Members of the crowd climbed atop the lead bus and unfurled a Hamas flag, the agency reported. Israel-Hamas ceasefire ... with people holding up cellphones and scrambling onto cars.

Pope expresses ... of people carrying the flags of Islamic Jihad, the second largest militant group after Hamas, which took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that triggered the war.

Could it possibly have been coincidence? The very day Congress certified Donald Trump’s election as the next U.S. president, the Vatican announced the transfer of San Diego’s Cardinal Robert McElroy ...

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Saturday that Francis picked up the “white flag” term that had been used by the interviewer. He issued a statement of clarification after the pope’s ...

Pope Francis will be remembered as the anti-Israel pope — or, more broadly, the anti-Western pope. The latest example of the pope’s hostility toward Israel was the creche on display in the ...

Via Shutterstock) Rome's chief Jewish rabbi on Thursday sharply criticized Pope Francis over the pontiff's recent ramping up of criticism against Israel's military campaign in Gaza, in an ...

Pope Francis made a video call Wednesday night ... The pontiff has called the parish every evening since Oct. 9, 2023, two days after the Israeli attacks on Gaza began, the agency said.

Like you and me, the pope can see what Israel has done with such ruthless ferocity to besieged Palestinians for more than a year in the barren, dystopian remnants of Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

(RNS) — The continued bombardment of Gaza that has killed and maimed civilians almost every day since early October 2023 has long ago ceased to be a war of self-defense. (RNS) — In a Dec. 25 ...