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By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent, LifeSiteNews, Sep 30, 2024 – 11:30 am EDT

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, urged ‘prayer, fasting, and penance’ for peace on the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks.

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JERUSALEM (LifeSiteNews) — Jerusalem’s Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa has called for a day of fasting, prayer, and penance on October 7, in a renewed bid for peace in the region.

In a public statement released in recent days, Pizzaballa once again renewed his persistent call for peace in the Holy Land, following the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas and subsequent considerable Israeli armed response.

The region, he said, “has been plunged into a vortex of violence and hatred never seen or experienced before.” Referencing the “intensity and impact of the tragedies” in the past year, the cardinal said such scenes had “deeply lacerated our conscience and our sense of humanity.” …

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