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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Catholic Church

French President Emmanuel Macron, center left, and his wife Brigitte Macron, third right, visit the restored interiors of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Nov.29, 2024 in Paris. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)
November 29, 2024, 8:14 pm
France shows off Notre Dame after ‘impossible’ restoration following devastating fire
Visiting the cathedral, Macron tells workers they healed ‘national wound’ with renovation work costing hundreds of millions of euros after 2019 blaze
By Francesco FONTEMAGGI
Pope Francis talks to journalists on the flight back to Rome at the end of his four-day visit to Belgium and Luxembourg, Semtember 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool)
September 29, 2024, 7:05 pm
Pope Francis, asked about IDF strikes, says use of force must not be ‘over the top’
‘Defense must always be proportionate to the attack,’ says pontiff in general comments following Israel bombing in Beirut that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
By Agencies and ToI Staff
French performers are seen riffing on Leonardo Da Vinci's painting of the Last Supper, in this screen capture from the opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 28, 2024, 4:44 pm
Olympic ceremony’s ‘Last Supper’ sketch meant no disrespect, says Paris 2024
Segment featuring drag queens, transgender model and naked singer made up as Greek god of wine Dionysus drew dismay from Catholic Church and religious right in America
By Karolos Grohmann
Franciscan friars and sisters pray during a mass for the Feast of the Ascension on The Rock of the Ascension at The Chapel of the Ascension in Jerusalem on May 20, 2020. The Feast of the Ascension commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into heaven. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 24, 2024, 8:37 am
Churches protest Israel’s demand they pay property tax, say it’s undoing status quo
Though they’re major landowners, churches traditionally were exempt from property taxes; leaders call warning letters a ‘coordinated attack’ on Christian presence in Holy Land
By Julia Frankel
Maronite Christians attend a Good Friday procession in Haifa on March 29, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
March 31, 2024, 5:04 pm
Haifa Christians stage solemn Good Friday march in Hezbollah’s crosshairs
The threat of rockets has caused northern worshipers to alter their plans on a holiday weekend that they are nonetheless determined to observe
By Canaan Lidor
Pope Francis speaks during a mass at St Peter's basilica for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord on February 2, 2024 in The Vatican. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)
February 3, 2024, 9:13 pm
Pope Francis decries ‘terrible increase in attacks against Jews’ worldwide
In letter to ‘my Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel,’ pontiff urges prayers for the return of hostages Hamas took on Oct. 7, says ‘we must never lose hope for possible peace’
By Agencies
French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Royal Jordanian Air Force's Prince Hassan Air Base (H5), about 117 kilometers northwest of the capital Amman, on December 22, 2023. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
December 24, 2023, 3:48 pm
Macron discusses ‘tragic situation’ at Gaza’s Catholic church with Latin patriarch
Military denies claim that snipers killed two women on parish grounds, where hundreds are sheltering from war; French president offers condolences for deaths
By Agencies
Nahida Khalil Anton (left), and her daughter, Samar (via X)
December 21, 2023, 1:15 pm
IDF again denies killing mother and daughter at Gaza church, cites Hamas fire in area
After review, army says Hamas fired RPG from vicinity of church, soldiers fired back and hit Hamas ‘spotters’; Latin patriarchate claimed women were killed by IDF sniper fire
By ToI Staff and AFP
Nahida Khalil Anton (left), and her daughter, Samar (via X)
December 18, 2023, 1:01 am
IDF refutes claim it targeted sole Catholic church in Gaza after 2 women said killed
Army says review found no indication of parish being hit or civilians harmed, after patriarchate says mother and daughter were killed by IDF sniper fire; pope condemns ‘terrorism’
By ToI Staff and AFP
File: Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Church in the Holy land Pierbattista Pizzaballa, leads a mass to Gaza Strip Palestinian Christian worshipers in the Roman Catholic Holy Family Church during the start of the Christmas holiday, in Gaza City, on December 19, 2021. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)
December 17, 2023, 10:45 am
Christian mother, daughter killed while sheltering in Gaza church, patriarch says
Sole Catholic church in Gaza claims pair killed by IDF sniper fire, generators and water source struck by tank; British MP says her family sheltering in church ‘days away from dying’
By ToI Staff
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder gives Pope Francis a 'Kishreinu' (Hebrew for 'Our Bond') document marking influence of the Catholic Church's Nostra Aetate declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations, October 19, 2023. (Shahar Azran/WJC via JTA)
October 24, 2023, 4:26 pm
In a first, a Jewish organization opens an office at the Vatican
World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder visits Pope Francis while inaugurating the organization’s ‘representative office to the Holy See’ late last week
By Gabe Friedman
Italian Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa (R) is elevated cardinal by Pope Francis during a consistory to create 21 new cardinals at St. Peter's square in The Vatican on September 30, 2023. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP)
September 30, 2023, 11:41 am
Jerusalem Latin Patriarch among 21 new cardinals anointed by Pope
New appointees expected to help Francis reform church and cement his legacy; Latin Patriarch Pizzaballa says nomination will ‘raise the voice of Jerusalem’
By Nicole Winfield
This undated photo shows Polish farmer Jozef Ulma with his wife Wiktoria. The Ulmas were killed with their seven children by the Nazis in 1944 for having sheltered Jews during World War II. (Mateusz Szpytma, Deputy head of Poland's IPN history institute via AP)
September 10, 2023, 11:56 am
In first, Vatican beatifies Polish family of 9 executed by Nazis for sheltering Jews
Mass held in honor of the Ulmas, who were killed along with 8 Jews they were hiding; experts have warned Warsaw could use recognition to downplay Poles’ role in Holocaust
By Agencies
File: The name of the Wiktoria i Jozef Ulma is seen on the wall commemorating Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust, at the opening ceremony of The Ulma Family Museum Of Poles Saving Jews in World War II in Markowa, Poland, March 17, 2014. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
September 9, 2023, 7:54 pm
Beatification of righteous Poles helping leaders downplay Holocaust role — experts
Historians warn Warsaw using celebration of family who died rescuing Jews to prop up image and ignore collaboration with Nazis
By Bernard OSSER
An undated file photo of Pope Pius XII. (AP Photo)
September 7, 2023, 10:25 pm
New research shows Catholic convents sheltered 3,200 Jews in Rome during WWII
Report from Yad Vashem, the Vatican, Italian Jewish community says at least that number were protected by church; sheds no new light on Pope Pius XII’s role during Nazi occupation
By Nicole Winfield
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