Pope Francis welcomed a group of around 300 Argentine pilgrims in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace. They had arrived in Rome for the canonization of Mamá Antula, a new saint of Argentine origin Photo: Vatican Media

Vatican Hospital Takes In Children of Gaza Wounded by the War

This humanitarian project in favour of the children of Gaza was an initiative of the Vicariate of the Custody of the Holy Land and the Governments of Italy and Egypt, in agreement with the Israeli Authorities. The intention is to take immediately some one hundred seriously wounded children to Italy and the Vatican to palliate the harm they have suffered from the bombings and battles in Gaza, medical care that is practically impossible in the Palestinian Strip.