The parish priest of Gaza's only Catholic church talks about getting daily calls from Pope Francis during the Israel-Hamas ...

Pope Francis called to check in on a Christian congregation in Gaza sheltering at their church almost every night since the ...

Father Gabriel Romanelli reflects on his FaceTime communications between the late pontiff and Gaza City’s “little flock.” ...

Pope Francis regularly called a church in Gaza to ask how residents there were doing during the Israel-Hamas war. He is ...

the pope rang the Holy Family Church in Gaza City around 8pm, Father Gabriel Romanelli, the pastor of the besieged territory’s only Catholic parish, told CNN. On most days, the call lasted about ...

For months, the pontiff spoke by telephone almost every night with people sheltering in a Catholic church in the battered ...

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza ...

Palestinian Catholics are anxious about who will succeed Pope Francis, who they saw as a true friend amid Israel's war ...

This was normally the time the pontiff would call the priest at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City every night throughout the war to check on how those huddled inside Gaza's lone Catholic ...

Gaza’s Christians mourn Pope Francis as a defender of peace and a source of strength during the horror of war.

GAZA CITY — For most people around the world, Pope Francis was a religious leader seen on video or read about in the news. For the congregation of a tiny Roman Catholic church in Gaza ...

On Monday night, following the news of the death of Pope Francis, Father Gabriel Romanelli's cellphone did not ring at 8 p.m.