Amid 'fragile' ceasefire, Caritas Jerusalem seeks to 'replant hope' in Gaza this Christmas
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Palestinian girls decorate a Christmas tree and Nativity inside Holy Family Church in Gaza City Dec. 9, 2025, as the community prepared for modest Christmas celebrations after two years of war. Throughout the month of December, Caritas Jerusalem launched the "Christmas of Hope," a campaign meant to address the "deep need to restore joy, dignity, and spiritual renewal to communities that have endured" the devastation of war. (OSV News photo/Dawoud Abu Alkas, Reuters) (DAWOUD ABU ALKAS)

Amid ‘fragile’ ceasefire, Caritas Jerusalem seeks to ‘replant hope’ in Gaza this Christmas

OSV News – As the celebration of Christ's birth draws near, the traditional Christmas tree lighting in various places, including Bethlehem and the Vatican, is meant as a sign of joyful expectation for the coming of salvation.Meeting with representatives who donated the Vatican's Christmas tree and Nativity scene Dec. 16, Pope Leo XIV noted that…...