Vatican Calls for Peace in Holy Land, Offers to Mediate Between Hamas and Israel

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Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, condemned Hamas’ Saturday terrorist attacks against Israel, called for peace in the Holy Land, and said the Vatican is ready to help mediate a peace agreement, in an interview published by Vatican News on Friday.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, condemned Hamas’ Saturday terrorist attacks against Israel, called for peace in the Holy Land, and said the Vatican is ready to help mediate a peace agreement, in an interviewpublished by Vatican News on Friday.

Cardinal Parolin told Vatican News that the Hamas attacks were “inhuman” and that the Holy See expresses “complete and firm condemnation.”

“We express our solidarity with the affected families, the vast majority of whom are Jewish,” he said. “We pray for them, for those still in shock, for the wounded.”

He also expressed the Vatican’s concern for the civilians in Gaza and the “men, women, children and the elderly held hostage.”

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