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150 Priests and Nuns March to the Vatican Over Gaza 'Genocide'

The "Priests Against Genocide" Network Carried a Shroud Bearing 300 Children's Names to St. Peter's Square and call for an end to what they described as genocide in Gaza.

150 Priests and Nuns March to the Vatican Over Gaza 'Genocide'

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The "Priests Against Genocide" Network Carried a Shroud Bearing 300 Children's Names to St.

Peter's Square and call for an end to what they described as genocide in Gaza.

The marchers stopped short of entering Vatican territory itself and moved under an Italian police escort throughout.

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The "Priests Against Genocide" Network Carried a Shroud Bearing 300 Children's Names to St. Peter's Square and call for an end to what they described as genocide in Gaza. The marchers stopped short of entering Vatican territory itself and moved under an Italian police escort throughout.

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  • The demonstrators marched down the main boulevard leading toward the Vatican carrying a large banner inscribed with the names of 300 children killed during Israel's war in Gaza and southern Lebanon,...
  • Among those marching Tuesday was Franco Moscone, the Catholic bishop of Manfredonia, Italy, giving the demonstration institutional weight beyond rank-and-file clergy alone.
  • Genocide Allegations With a Complicated Institutional History The word "genocide" itself carries specific institutional weight in this context.
  • Multiple experts, including some commissioned by a United Nations body, have concl...

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