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Find out how your parish can support the Gaza Crisis Appeal.
As we enter the first phase of a ceasefire in Gaza, your support can make a huge difference. Every donation will help local aid workers give urgent, practical help to families after two years of constant bombardment.
This is a critical time, thousands of families are facing unimaginable hardship. With your help, we can bring hope, relief and practical assistance directly to those who need it most.
Partners in Gaza told us this morning, ‘It is good news. A first step, we have to rejoice about this.’ There needs to be a massive increase in aid now into Gaza with unimpeded access to food, water and healthcare to reverse the spread of famine and malnutrition.
Please help today
Our partners are working in near-impossible conditions — delivering emergency healthcare, hot meals and mental health support — but they cannot meet the need alone.
Please donate now to the Gaza Crisis Appeal and help families survive this crisis with food, water, shelter and care.
The conflict has devastated lives
Millions across the Middle East have fled their homes in search of safety. They urgently need shelter, food and basic supplies.
Our partners are helping these families right now as they arrive in safer areas. Your donations will help with:
emergency healthcare
food packages
safe shelter
hygiene kits
mental health support
cash to buy fuel, blankets and other essentials.
On 22 July, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, offered a powerful reflection on the suffering in Gaza:
“Christ is not absent from Gaza. He is there — crucified in the wounded, buried beneath the rubble, and yet present in every act of mercy, every candle in the darkness, every hand extended to the suffering.”
This sacred presence, he emphasised, demands action:
“Humanitarian aid is not only necessary — it is a matter of life and death,” he continued. “To refuse it is not merely a delay, but a sentence. Every hour without food, water, medicine or shelter inflicts profound harm.”