Bishops: Holy Land violence no TV drama

By Marilyn Rodrigues November 15, 2023

Australia’s Catholic Bishops have called for people of faith to pray for peace in the Holy Land as a visiting UN expert warned that the Israel-Gaza war is robbing a generation of children of their future.

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, expressed “grief and anguish” over the suffering of people in the Holy Land in a 10 November statement from the bishops’ plenary gathering in Sydney.

“These are not simply news stories or television dramas: they are the stories of real people,” the bishops said.