Pope Francis remembers victims of the Holocaust
Pope Francis has honoured Jews killed in the Holocaust as he capped his three-day Middle East trip with poignant stops at some of the holiest and most haunting sites for Jews.
Pope urges end to 'unacceptable' Middle East conflict
Pope Francis has called the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "increasingly unacceptable" and urged both sides to take courageous and creative decisions to forge peace.
Pope Francis spoke alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after landing in the West Bank town of Bethlehem in a symbolic nod to Palestinian aspirations for their own state.
The Pontiff said both sides need to make sacrifices to create two states, with internationally recognised borders, for the good of their own people.
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