US Christian churches renew urgent calls for ceasefire as Christmas approaches
American Christian congregations have renewed urgent calls for a ceasefire as the death toll in Gaza during Israel’s ongoing siege climbs to more than 20,000 within the days before Christmas.
Statements from Christian leaders pleading for an end to the violence followed Israel’s attacks at a Catholic church and convent in Gaza, where a majority of the small community of Palestinian Christian families have taken refuge during the war.
On 16 December, a sniper from the Israel Defense Forces shot two women “without warning” and “in cold blood” at Holy Family Church, to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, an ecclesiastical office for the Latin Catholics
