Urging prayer, Jerusalem Patriarch sees ceasefire negotiations at crucial point
August 21, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, compared current ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas to the “last train” leaving a station and urged prayer for the success of the negotiations.
“We can move towards a ceasefire, but also towards a degeneration,” he said during an address at the Rimini Meeting, a major annual conference organized by Communion and Liberation.
“It is a key time,” he added. “But the evil this war has produced, the reciprocal hatred, the resentment, the refusal to acknowledge the existence of the other will remain.”
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