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This morning, at approximately 10:20 a.m., the Compound of the Holy Family in Gaza, belonging to the Latin Patriarchate, wa

An apparent Israeli strike on Gaza's sole Catholic Church killed two people and injured several, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said on Thursday. "Two persons were killed as a result of an apparent strike by the Israeli army that hit the Holy Family Compound this morning,

Catholic and Orthodox leaders unite in condemning the Israeli strike on Gaza's Holy Family Church, calling for an immediate ceasefire.

Pope Leo XIV has called Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem enters Gaza to visit the Holy Family Catholic Church after the Israeli strike that killed 3 people and injured several others taking refuge there.

The patriarchate stressed that it was praying for the repose of the souls of the dead and for an end to what it called this 'barbaric war.'

The Israeli military acknowledged that the strike on Thursday, in which a tank shell hit the church, was a 'mistake.' Meanwhile, its airstrikes continue to kill dozens of civilians every day in the besieged enclave.

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem said the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) struck Gaza’s sole Catholic Church in a raid on Thursday

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called on Saturday for the perpetrators of an attack on a Palestinian church in the occupied West Bank blamed on Israeli settlers to be prosecuted, calling it an "act of terror".

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in a July 14 statement, called on the Israeli government to hold those responsible to account.