Hopefully you’re going to have great success — or I call it everlasting success,” Trump said in the Oval Office Friday evening while revealing new details of his trip.

Christians leaders in the Holy Land said they “rejoice” over the enactment of the ceasefire in Gaza, and the successful release of captives held by the Islamist group Hamas and the Israeli state.

The Patriarchate ardently hopes that this accord will be fully and faithfully implemented, so that it may mark the beginning of the end of this terrible war,” the patriarchate said in the statement.

Father Gabriel Romanelli, who ministers to Gaza’s only Catholic church has asked his parishioners to “forgive all those who have failed” as the territory looks to rebuild following the newly announced ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Animal rights activists want Archbishop Mullally to ban leather Bibles and beeswax candles

By Junno Arocho Esteves, OSV News Christian leaders in the Holy Land, as well as Palestinian government officials, condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent speech at the United Nations General Assembly and blamed the Israeli occupation for the decreasing number of Christians in the area.

Atlanta’s Palestinian-American and Jewish-American communities expressed cautious optimism after Trump’s Israel-Hamas peace agreement.

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem welcomed "with joy" the announcement of an initial agreement between Hamas and Israel in an Oct. 9 statement, but also stressed the "absolute urgency" for the "immediate" and "unconditional" entry of humanitarian relief and sufficient aid into Gaza.