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 ...

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 ...