Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa has said that Jerusalem is called not merely to endure the wounds of war, but to become an instrument of healing for a fractured world, as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem issued a new pastoral letter on the vocation of the Church in the Holy Land. The letter, published on April 27, reflects on the conflict that has engulfed the region since the Hamas attacks of October 7 and the war in Gaza, which Pizzaballa describes as a turning point that has closed one age and opened another “in the worst possible way”.