Gaza’s only Catholic church – a refuge for many Christians during Israel’swar on Palestinians – has been bombed this morning. Strikes pounded the Holy Family Church, killing two people and wounding several others,

Pope Francis established a strong reputation as a workaholic, a tendency that he followed to the point of working from his hospital room earlier this year while deathly ill. But this July, Pope Leo XIV will be drawing attention to the merits of leisure.

Mughrabi and Crispian Balmer CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed at least 27 people in attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including three people who died in a strike on a church that late Pope Francis used to speak to regularly,