“From all over Ireland, parishioners are reporting their horror and helplessness on seeing images of death and communal destruction in Gaza.  Exhausted mothers can no longer nourish their young, children are dying of malnutrition, while aid lorries full of supplies are being refused entry into the territory, or are not safely arriving at their destination.
We in Ireland must pray for a change of heart.  Throughout the month of June – the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – we call on everyone to pray for an outpouring of the compassion of God on a heartless world.”  

We call on all Catholics to make the first Friday, 6 June, a day of prayer and fasting in solidarity with our sisters and brothers who are suffering at this time in the Holy Land.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Irish Bishops Conference