{"id":590,"date":"2025-03-23T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/23\/pope-francis-calls-for-immediate-end-to-israeli-strikes-on-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T13:37:05","slug":"pope-francis-calls-for-immediate-end-to-israeli-strikes-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/23\/pope-francis-calls-for-immediate-end-to-israeli-strikes-on-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Calls For &#8220;Immediate&#8221; End To Israeli Strikes On Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is once again very serious,&#8221; said Pope (File)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"Art-exp_wr\" id=\"ignorediv\">\n                                        <!-- Story Text --><br \/>\n                                                                                <b class=\"place_cont\">Vatican City: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis called Sunday for an &#8220;immediate&#8221; end to Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, and for the resumption of dialogue for the release of hostages and a &#8220;definitive ceasefire&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am saddened by the resumption of the intense Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, with so many deaths and injuries&#8221;, Francis wrote in his Angelus prayer, which was published Sunday as the 88-year-old was being discharged from more than five weeks in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ask that the weapons be silenced immediately and that the courage be found to resume dialogue so that all the hostages can be freed and a definitive ceasefire reached&#8221;, said Francis, who was set to return to the Vatican on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is once again very serious and requires the urgent commitment of the conflicting parties and the international community&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- Featured Video --><br \/>\n                                                                                                                        <!-- Recommended Widget -->\n                                                                                                                    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is once again very serious,&#8221; said Pope (File) Vatican City: Pope Francis called Sunday for an &#8220;immediate&#8221; end to Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, and for the resumption of dialogue for the release of hostages and a &#8220;definitive ceasefire&#8221;. &#8220;I am saddened by the resumption of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}