What happens in the aftermath of the I.D.F.’s Rafah assault remains hard to discern. Where do the Palestinians go next? How will they live? How will they be fed and sheltered?

All but four Senate Republicans and six Democrats voted to block the bipartisan bill’s passage yesterday. The actions of members from both parties concerned immigration advocates.

Many in the Arab and Muslim communities are distressed that interfaith leaders and organizations seem unable to take a clear moral and ethical stand against the war on Gaza.

The overriding concern is that the goal of a just war must always be to restore or establish peace.

Included in the list of actions against which our lives will be judged is: Did we welcome Jesus when he was a stranger?

The president of the Irish bishop’s conference hailed an agreement that sees a Catholic take the top political job in Northern Ireland for the first time in its history as an “opportunity for a fresh start and a new beginning.”