Pope Francis asked Catholics to get ready for the jubilee journey with a Year of Prayer and now, a few months after the year was officially announced, a kind of prayer prep-school is in session.
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Pilgrims pray as Israeli families mourn loved ones and Gaza undergoes retaliation attack
Pilgrims who were in Israel following a surprise terrorist attack by Hamas terrorists against civilian communities in southern Israel pray for peace at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as fighting continued in southern Israel.