Paul Jeffrey - Catholic News Service

One year after a war with Israel that turned daily life here into a nightmare, a Catholic priest in Gaza said the situation in this besieged Palestinian territory has deteriorated even further.

Fawzi Abu Jame'a had finally finished building his family's dream home just eight months before the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic party that governs Gaza. Unable to work because of diabetes, Jame'a had borrowed money from friends to buy the last materials he

Maryknoll Father Mike Bassano’s parish is a tightly packed maze of tents and tarpaulins filled with people hiding from war.

Church leaders in South Sudan are trying to breathe new life into their country's stalled peace talks.Stating that they spoke "with divine authority," leaders of the South Sudan Council of Churches, which includes Catholics and Protestants, issued a statement in late March lamenting th

They band together to search for sons, recover their bodies

Two mass killings in South Sudan have taken place in a Catholic diocese whose leaders were forced to flee the conflict, leaving the church's work in the hands of lay workers who are often on the run from fighting."We are a diocese in diaspora. My priests and I were forced out of our pastora

South Sudan's civil war has taken a brutal turn, despite appeals from the country's church leaders to stop the violence.In the oil hub of Bentiu, rebels loyal to ousted Vice President Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer, killed more than 200 civilians and wounded more than 400 in mid-April, the Unit

Church leaders in South Sudan have called on their country's warring groups to stop fighting and begin serious peace negotiations.In a pastoral statement released in Juba on April 13, nearly four months after fighting broke out in the newly independent African country, officials of the South Sud

When South Sudan's fledgling democracy suddenly unraveled in December, what started as political infighting within the country's ruling party quickly ripped along ethnic fault lines, often pitting neighbors against each other according to the tribal markings on their faces.Within a few days,