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A view of the Basilica of Montserrat at the Monastery of Montserrat near Barcelona, Spain, Friday, June 5, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

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A view of the Basilica of Montserrat at the Monastery of Montserrat near Barcelona, Spain, Friday, June 5, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Pope Leo will tap into the Sagrada Familia’s allure while honoring Catalonia’s holy mountain

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Bishop John Tatah Berinyuy, auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese, poses for a portrait in Bamenda, Cameroon, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (Credit: Welba Yamo Pascal/AP.)

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Louis Sako, patriarch of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, April 21, 2025. (Credit: Hadi Mizban/AP.)

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People attend the lighting of a Christmas tree at the Greek Orthodox Mar Elias Church, months after the church was the site of a deadly suicide bombing, in the Dweila neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025.(Credit: Omar Sanadiki/AP.)

Syrian church marks Christmas and reaffirms faith months after deadly attack

Dec 25, 2025
Abby Sewell,
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A billboard displays an image of Pope Leo XIV, ahead of his upcoming visit to Lebanon, near the grain silos at Beirut's port that were heavily damaged in the massive 2020 explosion as a graffiti in Arabic reading "Victims of the Beirut port explosion" is seen in the foreground, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Pope Leo XIV’s visit rekindles hope in war- and crisis-battered Lebanon

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