Support Emergency Relief in the Holy Land
Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Nowhere. Even as shells fall, destroying what has already been destroyed, another far more insidious danger looms for those who have until now escaped death:
Starvation.
The images of emaciated limbs and drawn faces of children haunting our screens are real. The warnings of famine and starvation are now real.
The United Nations has urged Israel to allow its “humanitarian partners to bring unrestricted and uninterrupted humanitarian assistance to Gaza,” noting that “the equivalent of 6,000 loaded trucks of food and medical supplies” are waiting in Jordan and Egypt.
And yet, the trucks wait. Their engines idle. And children die.
Our church networks have secured some food and water that have trickled into Gaza, which is nearly hermetically sealed, cut off from the rest of the world, but that aid is far from sufficient even for the families cared for by Gaza’s two parishes.
More aid is needed now!
Join CNEWA-Pontifical Mission’s efforts to support the church in Gaza respond to the needs of the community.
Your gift will help us procure more food and drinking water for families and provide medical and psychological care for the sick, malnourished and wounded.
Pope Leo XIV has repeatedly called “for an immediate halt to the barbarism of the war and for a peaceful resolution of the conflict” in Gaza.
He has condemned the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and stressed the dire moral consequences of turning a blind eye to the dehumanization of the Gazan people and the robbing of their fundamental God-given human dignity.
As an agency of the Holy See, CNEWA is proud to stand with the Holy Father in steadfast commitment to this shared call for peace in the Holy Land. As human beings, as followers of Jesus, as Catholics, we will be judged by how we have responded to the desperate cries of the poor, to the needs of our neighbors.
And as members of the universal church, devoted bridge-builders and advocates for peace, we stand united in our support for the dignity of all human life. Please stand with us now.
Send your emergency gift now.