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In this photo released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, meets with Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Gen. Asim Munir in Tehran, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (Credit: Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP.)

Archbishop, others support Pakistan efforts to work for peace in Iran

Apr 16
Samy Magdy,
Associated Press

U.S. Vice President JD Vance, center, walks with Pakistan's Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshall Asim Munir, left, and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar after arriving for talks with Iranian officials in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via AP.)

US and Iran end ceasefire talks and Vance heads home without an agreement

Apr 12
Munir Ahmed,
Associated Press

Patriarch Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, center left, performs the Washing of the Feet ceremony, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, after restrictions were lifted following a ceasefire reached between Iran, Israel and the United States, in Jerusalem's Old City, Thursday, April 9, 2026. (Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP.)

Israel lifts restrictions at holy sites in Jerusalem after fragile ceasefire announced

Apr 10
Sam Mednick,
Associated Press

Men carry the coffins with the bodies of Pierre Mouawad, an official with the anti-Hezbollah Lebanese Forces party, and his wife during their funeral in Yahshush, in Lebanon, Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Lebanon buries a Christian official killed in an Israeli strike as anti-Hezbollah anger surges

Apr 9
Kareem Chehayeb,
Associated Press

Worshipers pray during Good Friday Mass at St. Anthony Church, which was devoted to expressing solidarity with Christian villagers in southern Lebanon displaced by the war in Jdeideh, a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 3, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Displaced by war, Lebanon’s Christians mark Easter far from their homes and churches

Apr 5
Kareem Chehayeb,
Isabel Debre, Associated Press

Zahra, 6, displaced from Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh, sits inside a tent used as a shelter along the beachfront in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Lebanese displaced by war fill Beirut’s streets, upending city life

Apr 2
Isabel Debre,
Associated Press

Displaced people who fled Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon sit i n tents in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 29, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Iran says its expelled ambassador won’t leave Lebanon as political tensions soar

Mar 31
Kareem Chehayeb,
Associated Press

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, holds a prayer service to mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (Credit: Ammar Awad/Pool Photo via AP.)

Israeli police say new framework aims to ‘enable freedom of worship’ in Jerusalem

Mar 30
Melanie Lidman,
Nicole Winfield, Associated Press

Catholic worshipers carry their children on their shoulders as they march in a procession during a Palm Sunday Mass in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 29, 2026. The poster in the background reads in Arabic: “Honor, sacrifice and loyalty”. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Photos show Lebanon’s Catholics marking Palm Sunday as the shadow of war weighs heavily

Mar 30
Hussein Malla,
Emilio Morenatti, Associated Press

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa at the Vatican on April 24, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Catholic cardinal refused entry to Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

Mar 29
Crux Now Staff