On Christmas, pope makes appeal for Gaza and displaced people

ROME – On Christmas day, Pope Leo XIV issued an appeal on behalf of refugees and the displaced, including in Gaza, saying the peace offered to the world at Jesus’s birth is found in showing solidarity with others.

In his Dec. 25 homily, the pope said that “since the Word was made flesh, humanity now speaks, crying out with God’s own desire to encounter us. The Word has pitched his fragile tent among us.”

“How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain...