The US bishops have said they receive the news of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah with “profound hope". They have urged all parties in the Middle East to continue efforts towards broader peace.
Their comments came on 27 November, the day the ceasefire in Lebanon was announced, just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.
“It is in a spirit of profound hope that I welcome news that, after more than a year of fighting and thousands of deaths, a ceasefire has been agreed upon by Israel and Hezbollah," Bishop Elias Zaidan of the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon, and Chair of the Committee on International Justice and Peace for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), said in a statement.
