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Gina Christian of OSV News catches you up on the Catholic news of the day for July 18, 2025. Tune in and visit us online at osvnews.com.

• World and church leaders are condemning a deadly July 17 Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip's Holy Family Parish.
  
  
•  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telephoned Pope Leo XIV, who urged Israel's leader to revive negotiations and enact a ceasefire. 
  
  
• As alarming sectarian violence swept through Syria in the third week of July, Christian communities in the region experienced a new wave of persecution. 
  
  
• A federal court on July 18 temporarily blocked a new law in Washington state requiring clergy to report child abuse or neglect without exceptions for the confessional.
  
  
• At Purpose Fest 2025 in Sydney, hundreds of young Catholics lined up to experience the world premiere of the Carlo Acutis virtual reality experience.