🇮🇱 Israel-Hamas war: The crucial role of religion in the deadly conflict 🔌

By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged

Good morning, Weekend Plug-in readers!

Did you miss me? I traveled to Cuba on a reporting trip. Given my limited internet access while away, Plug-in took last week off.

That means this is our first edition since the Israel-Hamas war started. What an overwhelming story with countless religious angles. But I’ll do my best to catch you — and me — up.

The latest: an overnight blast on the campus of the historic St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City, where scores of Palestinian families had been sheltering from Israeli air strikes. ReligionUnplugged.com’s own Clemente Lisi has the details.

This is our weekly roundup of the top headlines and best reads in the world of faith. We start, of course, with the deadly conflict in the Middle East.

Read the full column.

This column appears in the online magazine Religion Unplugged.

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