Pope expresses solidarity with Catholics in the Holy Land as Easter approaches. “Brothers, sisters, I want to tell you: you are not alone and we will not leave you alone,” assured the Argentine Jesuit.
The Gaza Strip, where the majority of its 2.4 million inhabitants are Muslim, has around a thousand Christians, most of them Orthodox, while the number of Catholics in Israel and the Palestinian Territories is estimated at around 200,000 faithful. The Pope also expressed his closeness to two fathers and peace activists, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who both lost their daughters in the conflict.