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Dec 3
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Pope Leo XIV on the plane to Rome from Lebanon on Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Elise Ann Allen/CruxNow.com)

Pope inflight says fears over Islam often a political maneuver against migrants

Dec 2
Elise Ann Allen

People wait for the arrival of Pope Leo XIV to visit the De la Croix hospital in Jal el Dib, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Pope bids farewell to Lebanon with call for end to armed conflict

Dec 2
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Pope Leo XIV arrives to celebrate Mass at Beirut’s waterfront. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Pope ends Mass with a call for peace

Dec 2
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A Nativity scene containing characters with cloth faces, by Belgian artist Victoria-Maria Geyer, is displayed in a white tent in Brussels, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Credit: Sylvain Plazy/AP.)

A controversial infant Jesus is stolen from a Belgian Nativity scene

Dec 2
Sylvain Plazy,
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Auction officer Jean-Pierre Osenat gestures as the long-lost painting “Crucifixion of Jesus Christ” by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens was sold at auction for 2,3 million euros or $2.66 million in Versailles, west of Paris, Nov. 30, 2025. (Credit: Michel Euler/AP.)

A long-lost Rubens painting depicting Crucifixion sells for $2.7 million

Dec 1
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Pope Leo XIV on the plane to Rome from Lebanon on Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Elise Ann Allen/CruxNow.com)

Pope inflight says fears over Islam often a political maneuver against migrants

Dec 2
Elise Ann Allen

A nun holds up a portrait of Pope Leo XIV where he will meet with bishops, priests, consecrated persons and pastoral workers at the Catholic basilica of Harissa, Lebanon Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.)

Pope in Lebanon prays for peace at tomb of saint revered by Christians and Muslims

Dec 1
Nicole Winfield,
Trisha Thomas, Associated Press

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