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Pope Francis leads the weekly general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, October 11, 2023.

Pope deplores end of Israeli-Hamas truce, calls for new ceasefire

Pope Francis leads the weekly general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, October 11, 2023.

Pope says conflict between Israel and Hamas has gone beyond war to 'terrorism'

Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with members of Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Service (CHARIS) at the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, November 4, 2023

Pope Francis to meet with Gaza hostages' families

Pope Francis meets with the delegation of the Conference of European Rabbis at the Vatican, November 6, 2023.

Pope Francis urged to intervene in Israeli hostage crisis

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder gives Pope Francis a a “Kishreinu” (Hebrew for “Our Bond”) document marking influence of the Catholic Church's Nostra Aetate declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations, Oct. 19, 2023.

In a first, a Jewish organization opens an office at the Vatican

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA

Pope Francis attends the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 29, 2023.

‘I pray for those families’: Pope Francis calls on Hamas to free Israeli hostages

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

Cardinal-elect Pierbattista Pizzaballa at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem during Easter week, 2023.

Vatican Jerusalem Cardinal appointment signals diplomatic and religious intentions

By Nicole Jansezian/The Media Line

Pope Francis reacts as he attends a meeting at Palais du Pharo, on the occasion of the Mediterranean Meetings (MED 2023), in Marseille, France, September 23, 2023.

No 'sea of death': Pope calls for pan-European action on migration

By REUTERS

Pope Francis holds the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 8, 2023.

Pope says impeding migrant rescues at sea is 'gesture of hate'

By REUTERS

POPE PIUS XII appears in an undated file photo from the archives of Vatican newspaper ‘Osservatore Romano.’

The Vatican knew about the Holocaust, WW2-era letter reveals

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Pope Pius XII at the end of Mass.

WWII -era documents name Jews aided by Catholics in fascist Rome

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jews held at gunpoint by Nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Catholic Church to beatify Polish family, including new-born baby, killed by Nazis

By REUTERS

Pope Francis leads the Vespers with members of the clergy at the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos (Jeronimos Monastery) during his apostolic journey to Portugal on the occasion of the XXXVII World Youth Day, in Lisbon, Portugal, August 2, 2023

Pope acknowledges his Russia comments were faulty

By REUTERS

Pope Francis holds the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 8, 2023.

Pope Francis laments 'reactionary,' politicized, US Catholic Church

By REUTERS

AN EMPTY classroom in an east Jerusalem school, closed in protest at ‘Israeli censorship’ of PA-autorized school textbooks, last year.

Catholic students asked to behave 'consistent with their biological sex'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Pope Francis holds the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 8, 2023.

Huge billboard in Lisbon puts spotlight on clergy abuse as pope arrives

By REUTERS

People participate in a vigil in support of the 4,815 children that were sexually abused by members of the Portuguese Catholic Church, according to the commission investigating the issue, in Lisbon, Portugal, February 22, 2023.

Pope to Portugal for bittersweet 'Catholic Woodstock'

By REUTERS

Pope Francis attends the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 29, 2023.

Pope approves Shanghai bishop as Vatican chides China for lack of consultation

By REUTERS