A prayer for peace
This Easter, we pause to look at the world – our world.
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VATICAN CITY, Holy See — Pope Francis, who often pleads for compassion to prisoners, washed the feet of 12 incarcerated women in Rome on Thursday in a rite marking Holy Thursday before Easter.
GENEVA, Switzerland — More children have been reported killed in the war raging in Gaza than in four years of conflict around the world, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday.
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES — An international effort gathered pace on Friday to get desperately needed humanitarian relief into Gaza by sea, in the latest bid to counter overland access restrictions blamed on Israel as it battles Hamas militants.
MANILA, Philippines — A new bill filed at the Senate seeks to create a refugee and stateless persons protection board under the Department of Justice that will institutionalize the country's protection mechanisms for refugees or stateless persons.
Sen. Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla has filed a bill strengthening the Philippine government's protection for refugees and stateless persons, especially those displaced by armed conflict, violence, persecution and insecurity.
Israel's four-month military campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip has trapped more than half of the enclave's population in a sliver of land between the Israeli ground offensive, the Mediterranean and the sealed border with Egypt.
UNITED NATIONS, United States — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called his organization's Palestinian refugee agency the "backbone" of Gaza aid on Wednesday after several countries suspended funding over Israeli claims 12 UNRWA staffers participated in Hamas' October 7 attacks.