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Peril grows as Israel-Hamas war enters second year

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Pope praises release of two Ukrainian priests from captivity

Almog Meir Jan, 22, a hostage rescued by Israeli forces June 8, reacts after being returned to Ramat Gan, Israel. The Israeli military rescued Jan and three other hostages from the central Gaza Strip in a heavy air and ground assault. (OSV News photo/Marko Djurica, Reuters)

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After Israeli hostage rescue, pope renews peace plea

Children sit in the back of an ambulance at Shifa Hospital following an airstrike on the CNEWA-supported al-Ahli
Arab Hospital in Gaza City Oct. 17.

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Organization in ’disbelief’ over hospital attack

Pope Francis marks the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China during his weekly general audience May 24, 2023, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

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Pope schedules day of prayer for peace Oct. 27

Pope Francis greets visitors gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican to pray the Angelus Oct. 15, 2023.

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Pope pleas with Hamas to release hostages after attacks

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, poses for a photo while speaking to reporters at the Vatican Sept. 28, 2023.

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Jerusalem cardinal offers himself in place of hostages

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Biden discusses Ukraine with Pope Francis’ envoy

In this June 29 image, Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich and Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia inspect a memorial near Irpin, Ukraine made of cars shelled by Russian troops as Ukrainian civilians attempted to flee the area in 2022.

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’Ukrainians are fighting for the same freedom we have’

A Ukrainian serviceman holds an Orthodox icon inside a destroyed church near the town of Lyman, Ukraine in this file photo from Oct. 7, 2022.

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Commission sees attack on religious liberty in Ukraine