“I am ready for an exchange, anything, if this can lead to freedom, to bring the children home. No problem. There is total willingness on my part,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, has offered to exchange himself for the child hostages Hamas is holding. Cardinal Pierbattista is the leader of the Latin Rite Catholics in Israel and Gaza. Christians are a minority in Gaza. While many of them are Orthodox and Roman Catholic, there are... Read more