December 17, 2023 / 09:31 AM
This Sunday, after praying the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis expressed his pain for the attack that the only Catholic parish in Gaza suffered yesterday by Israeli soldiers, a compound “where there are no terrorists,” but in which two were murdered. women.
“I continue to receive very serious and painful news from Gaza. Unarmed civilians are being bombed and shot. And this has happened even within the parish area of the Sagrada Familia, where there are no terrorists, but families“, children, the sick and disabled, nuns,” the Holy Father said to the 22,000 faithful gathered in front of the Apostolic Palace, in St. Peter’s Square.
Yesterday Saturday, Vatican News reported that members of the Israeli Army entered the La Sagrada Familia church and shot at refugees who tried to leave.