The Holy See Press Office also announced the Beatification of the Servants of God Jan Świerc and eight companions

Despite the Israeli army’s full incursion into Gaza, priests and nuns will remain in the city as witnesses of charity

Cardinal Pizzaballa and Greek Orthodox Theophilus III reject the prospect of «evacuation» in the face of the Israeli military operation already underway. “There can be no future based on imprisonment, the displacement of Palestinians, or revenge,” they say. The Sisters of Mother Teresa, who arrived in 1973 after the killing of the local parish priest, serve a community devastated by hunger and war. In Tel Aviv, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum is marking a “National Day of Struggle”.

«Adoption Is Not a ‘Plan B’, It’s a True Vocation»: Young Influencers Who Bet on Adoption

We are experiencing this time as a «pregnancy of the heart,» a little longer than usual. Furthermore, we don’t know if it will be a boy or a girl, a baby or an older child, what features it will have… and this allows us to wait without labelling, loving without limits. In this process, we also consciously prepare for the arrival and, above all, we care for and strengthen our marriage, because it will be the pillar of the family that God entrusts to us.