Pope Francis urges all Christians to spend October 27 as a day of prayer and fasting for peace in the Middle East as the war continues. Other faith leaders shared thoughts.
Pope Francis has encouraged all faithful Christians to fast and pray for peace in the Middle East on Friday, October 27, as the war between Israel and Hamas enters its third week — and in an Oct. 24 letter to the diocese, which contains parishes in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and Cyprus, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, echoed those calls. Pizzabella called the last two weeks 'one of the most difficult and painful periods in our recent times and history.
These conflicts surely grieve God's heart and are a direct affront to everything that Christ represents,' Don Shenk, executive director of The Tide Ministry in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. Peace, said Shenk, 'is made possible when we turn our focus away from ourselves and our differences to acknowledge and submit to God's authority.' One way to do this, he said, was 'joining together in unified prayer.
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