Pope Francis' Christmas message to the curia did not go down well in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POPE FRANCIS Israel's harsh response to the Pope came from the Foreign Ministry. In their statement published on social media, it reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCruelty is terrorists hiding behind children while trying to murder Israeli children.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n They also say that 'cruelty is holding 100 hostages for 442 days, including a baby and children, by terrorists and abusing them.' It ends with this sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUnfortunately, the Pope has chosen to ignore all of this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet during the Angelus the next day the pope insisted on rejecting what is happening in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n POPE FRANCIS That same Sunday the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem was able to visit the Catholic parish in Gaza and administer the sacraments such as confirmation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pope Francis' words in his Christmas message to the curia did not go down well in Israel. On social media, the Foreign Ministry published its response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":73784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kTHblHnXDsY","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/israelevspapafrancescoeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/israelevspapafrancescoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73795,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73793\/revisions\/73795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>Yesterday the [Latin] Patriarch [of Jerusalem] was not allowed into Gaza, as had been promised; and yesterday children were bombed. This is cruelty. This is not war. I wanted to tell you this because it touches my heart.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>And with sorrow I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty; of the children machine-gunned, the bombing of schools and hospitals\u2026 So much cruelty!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n