In Christmas Day message, Pope Francis decries Gaza’s ‘appalling harvest’ of civilian deaths

In his Christmas Day ‘Urbi et Orbi’ (to the city and world) address, Pope Francis also called the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants ‘abominable’ and again appealed for the release of around 100 hostages still being held in Gaza

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