Israel issues evacuation order for Holy Family Parish’s Gaza City neighborhood

Worshippers attend a Sunday morning Mass led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City on July 20, 2025. / Credit: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Aug 18, 2025 / 15:04 pm (CNA). Father Gabriel Romanelli, the pastor of the only Catholic church in Gaza, Holy Family Parish, said Monday that an evacuation order was issued by Israeli forces for the al-Zaytun neighborhood surrounding the parish…