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Pope Leo, Palestinian president discuss humanitarian tragedy in Gaza during phone call

Carol Glatz · July 21, 2025

The humanitarian tragedy in the Gaza Strip and the need for urgent assistance were part of discussions between Pope Leo XVI and Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority.

Gaza's Catholic pastor recalls 'terrible' attack as Parolin decries 'war without limits'

OSV News · July 21, 2025

Father Gabriel Romanelli, lightly injured in the leg during the Israeli military strike on the Holy Family Parish compound in the Gaza Strip July 17 told L'Osservatore Romano that what happened in the parish was "terrible" and that "the situation continues to be very serious."

3 dead, Holy Family Gaza pastor injured after mid-morning Israeli attack

Judith Sudilovsky · July 17, 2025

Three people were confirmed dead and nine were injured, including a parish pastor, following what initial reports say was a mid-morning Israeli tank attack on the Holy Family Parish Church in Gaza on July 17.

Pope Leo calls for ceasefire, dialogue, peace after church hit in Gaza

Carol Glatz · July 17, 2025

After an early morning attack on the Holy Family Church in Gaza, Pope Leo XIV called for an immediate ceasefire, dialogue and peace in the region.

As excavation begins at Irish maternity home, Catholic experts urge fact-based news reporting

Michael Kelly · July 16, 2025

A full excavation began July 14 at a site near a former mother-and-baby home in the west of Ireland, believed to be the final resting place of up to 800 infants.

Church of England weighs proposal to place St. Thomas More's skull in shrine for veneration

Simon Caldwell · July 16, 2025

The Church of England is weighing plans to exhume and enshrine the head of St. Thomas More , the patron saint of statesmen and politicians, in time for the 500th anniversary of his 1535 martyrdom.

One officer dead, three seminarians kidnapped after attack on Nigerian seminary

OSV News · July 15, 2025

In Nigeria's Edo state, gunmen stormed Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in the Diocese of Auchi the night of July 10, killing a security officer and abducting three seminarians, according to Aid to the Church in Need.

30 years on, wounds of Srebrenica massacre still felt

Junno Arocho Esteves · July 14, 2025

The wounds inflicted on innocent men, women and children during the Srebrenica massacre, one of the worst atrocities to happen in Europe since World War II, are hardly healed 30 years later.

Kidnapped Nigeria priest who served in Alaska still held captive, sources say

Gina Christian · July 11, 2025

A Nigerian priest who previously served in Alaska remains missing after being captured by Boko Haram operatives in his homeland, OSV News has learned.

California diocese suspends Mass obligation for those with 'genuine fear' of ICE raids

Kate Scanlon · July 10, 2025

Amid concern over immigration enforcement raids in the area, the Bishop of San Bernardino, California, on July 8 issued a dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass for the faithful if they fear for their well-being.