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Smoke increases after Israeli airstrikes on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 10, 2023. | Credit: Anas-Mohammed/Shutterstock

What You Need to Know about the War Between Israel and Hamas

Oct 18, 2023

The ongoing tension in the Middle East has flared up again in a war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that controls the Gaza Strip.

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World Day of Consecrated Life: South Sudanese Bishop Urges Proactive Vocations Promotion to Safeguard Church’s Future

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“We search in wrong places,” Catholic Archbishop Urges Nigerians to Seek True Happiness beyond Worldly Pleasures

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Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe Bishops Create Special Commissions for Pope Leo XIV’s Anticipated Visit

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“A vocation of service to human family”: Zambia’s Catholic Bishops Decry Wrong notion of Politics Ahead of August Polls

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Pope Leo XIV Exhorts Catholic Bishops in Lesotho to Walk Together “as a Church that listens”

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“Land is Angola’s social security”: Catholic Church, Government Urged to Lead Agricultural Regeneration Efforts

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Over 200 Killed in Coltan Mine Collapse in Eastern DR Congo as Cardinal Ambongo Decries Resource Exploitation

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A World Scattered, A Youth Unheard: Kenyan Catholic Bishop on Why Kenya and the World “need the spirit of Don Bosco”

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“Our hearts go out to thousands”: SECAM President Joins Pope Leo XIV in Solidarity with Southern Africa Flood Victims

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Guarantee Right to Religious Freedom, Catholic Bishop Urges Nigerian Government, Decries Ongoing Christian Persecution

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Catholic Bishop in South Sudan Urges Youths to Be Builders of Peace and Development at Diocesan Festival

From the opening of St. Francis of Assisi’s tomb in 2015, showing the then-custos of the Sacred Convent, Father Mauro Gambetti, inspecting the remains of the saint’s body. | Credit: Photo courtesy of the Sacred Convent of Assisi

Hundreds of Thousands Register to Venerate Relics of St. Francis of Assisi

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“Our problems are self-inflicted”: Cardinal Onaiyekan on Nigeria’s Deepening Crisis

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Young Catholic Adults, The Consecrated Converge in Groundbreaking Youth Synod in Southern Africa

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Pope Leo XIV Exhorts Catholic Bishops in Lesotho to Walk Together “as a Church that listens”

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Kenyan Archbishop Appeals for Prayers ahead of Auxiliary Bishop’s Episcopal Ordination

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