And it is the ambassador, Yaron Sideman, who will represent Israel at the funeral of Pope Francis. This is in marked contrast ...

Pope Francis regularly called a church in Gaza to ask how residents there were doing during the Israel-Hamas war. He is ...

Hours after Israel's Foreign Ministry posted a condolence for the passing for Pope Francis, it was deleted without ...

Cuba thaw and inked a deal with China on bishop appointments. His calls for peace and to fight climate change were not always ...

Russia and Israel will be represented at Pope Francis’ funeral — but China is likely to stay absent. View on euronews ...

The pope's funeral, set to take place on Saturday, is expected to be attended by a range of world leaders. The absence of ...

Israeli diplomatic missions worldwide also instructed to delete similar posts and not to sign Vatican embassy condolence ...

Pope Francis created a will expressing his desire that just one word be inscribed on the stone marking his burial place: ...

But on one front, the pope’s moral compass faltered time and again: his relationship with the State of Israel. From the very beginning of his papacy, Francis struck a markedly different tone ...

More recently, he slammed Israel for the “systemic violation ... which has never had a pope from outside Europe until Francis, who was from an Italian family in Argentina. But even some Vatican ...