In a nation fractured by war, where women’s bodies have become battlegrounds and bulldozers have destroyed houses in the name of “development,” Ethiopia’s Meserete Kristos Church faces a reckoning.
On August 26, Amgad Al-Mahalawi, my Palestinian friend, and his family had to flee their previously destroyed home in Gaza City.
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, led a prayer vigil on Aug. 14, where he read the name of every child who has died in the conflict between Israel and Hamas since the start of the war in the Holy Land two years ago.
On the anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago, faith-based peace activists gathered at the Pentagon and the White House to call for nuclear disarmament and an end to war.