The heads leaned and raised their hands in their hearts in prayers, worshipers, from children to older people, were offered forgiven from Pontif. The row of altar boys trained in Scarlet and White helped the services leadership.
One supporter raised his hands, grief fixed on his face while facing a portrait of Francis decorated with a black ribbon that sat on the altar. The church lasted about 18 months of war, including an attack that killed two of its parishers as they stood in the walls of the compounds.
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Catholic Regional Body whose territory, accused the Israeli forces of Shooting Nahid Anton, “in cold blood”, and injuries others that they tried to escape in the church compound, which is difficult.
Israeli officials denied responsibility in the incident.
During Francis, “almost a night calls, he often asked what the birch managed to eat and how they kept in the middle of the fight. The Pope continued this tradition as long as he faced a series of health issues, including bronchitis and double inflammation of the lungs.
“He was very close,” Rev. Gabriel Romaneli from the Church of the Holy Family said Easter on Monday, the hours after the Vatican announced Francis’s death.
“He called us all the time throughout this war, this terrible war,” he said. “More than a year and a half, he called us every day.”
In his last call on Saturday, Romijelli said Francis shared his blessings with the church and thanked them on all of what they did.
The Pope became more open in his critique of Israeli behavior in the war in recent months. Earlier this year, he convicted the humanitarian crisis, denoting it “very serious and embarrassed” as he called the end of Israel’s bombing of the campaign. Israel continued offensive last month after he finished ceasefire with Hamas.
Francis also allegedly targeted the Church of the Holy Family in December 2023. years. “In Gaza” unarmed civilians are the goals for bombs and shootings, “he said,” there was no terrorists, than families, children, people who are sick and have disability, sisters. ”
More than 51,000 people were killed in Gaza, because the war began, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the enclave.
Israel has launched its offensive after 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks in which about 1,200 people were killed, and about 250 took the hostage, according to the main escalations in the decade conflict.
After Francis’ death, Palestinians over Gaza will hope that he will see his successor to receive the call at the end of the war in the enclave.
“We are united in prayers and for the next pope,” said the parishioner Suhail Abu Dawood, 19, adding: “We are united in peace prayers – in Gaza and around the world.”
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