Pope Francis continued his recovery from pneumonia Tuesday as the Vatican set in motion a nightly marathon of prayers from “his house” and allies cheered him on from afar in hopes that he might recover and get back to leading the Catholic Church.

Even while Pope Francis is hospitalized, he still keeps in touch with a Roman Catholic parish in Gaza City, making near-nightly ... the parish priest of the Church of the Holy Family, the only ...

Christian communities in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem say the situation for them has worsened under the current ceasefire, which has caused a proliferation of security checkpoints and roadblocks across the region that restrict their everyday lives.

Father Gabriel Romanelli, IVE, the pastor of Holy Family Parish, the only Catholic parish in the ... is known by the children of Holy Family Church in Gaza as “the grandfather.”

On Monday evening, doctors said Pope Francis remained in critical condition with double pneumonia but reported a "slight improvement" in some laboratory results.

Pope Francis was resting Monday morning after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his hospitalization for a complex lung infection that has provoked the early stages of kidney failure, the Vatican said. The one-line statement didn’t say if Francis, 88, had woken up. “The night passed well, the pope slept and is resting,” it said.

In a critical condition, Pope Francis does not forget his people in the region that is now devastated due to Israeli attacks.

On Monday night the Vatican's No. 2 led the faithful in a somber night-time recitation of the Rosary prayer in St. Peter's Square. The pope has been hospitalized since Feb. 14. Doctors say his condition is touch-and-go,

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Despite being in the Gemelli hospital in Rome for the past ten days, Pope Francis remains in charge of the Catholic Church ... including calling a parish in Gaza City that he has kept in touch ...