Pope Leo condemns suffering in Gaza in first Christmas sermon

Many of the remaining churches across Gaza either scaled back or cancelled Christmas activities altogether.

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Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.

Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s rulings, opinions, and procedures on the law, on other institutions, and on [...

At least 13 people in Gaza, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather.

Gaza used to have twelve higher-education institutions. Over the last two years, Israel partly or totally destroyed every one of them in its campaign to crush Palestinian public life and ruin its chan...

<article data-history-node-id="432953" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-continues-violate-ceasefire-bombs-gaza-artillery" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-continues-violate-ceasefire-bombs-gaza-artillery" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel continues to violate ceasefire, bombs Gaza with artillery </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel on Tuesday continued to violate the ceasefire agreement, bombarding Gaza with artillery, Palestinian media have reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israeli warplanes opened fire on the eastern areas of Gaza City and the Tuffah neighbourhood, Wafa news agency reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>The report added that Israeli fighter jets also launched air strikes east of Deir al-Balah and east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.</p> <p>Since the ceasefire on 10 October 2025, a total of 405 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, while 1,115 others were reported wounded, Gaza's health ministry said on Monday.</p> <p>According to a statement issued by the ministry on Telegram, a total of 70,937 Palestinians were killed since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on 7 October 2023, while 171,192 others were wounded.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...

A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.

Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.

About 90 emergency 911 calls have been made from the Camp East Montana immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, during the 15 weeks since it opened.

This paper offers a localized case study of the relationship between broken windows policing and gentrification. The paper leverages two unique data sets of arrests and building permits from 2018 agai...

Dr. Irfan Galaria returns from Gaza's hospitals, recounting ongoing Israeli military violence and no sign of a ceasefire.