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Church in the Middle East

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stand amid the destruction left by Israeli strikes north of Gaza City Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

Israel says it has received another set of human remains from militants in Gaza

  • Nov 26
  • Wafaa Shurafa, 
    Associated Press
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

  • Nov 25
  • Kareem Chehayeb, 
    Abby Sewell, Associated Press
The sun sets behind the dome of the Melkite Greek Catholic Basilica of Saint Paul in Harissa, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

Photos show Christian landmarks in Lebanon ahead of the pope’s visit

  • Nov 24
  • Hassan Ammar, 
    Associated Press
Civil Defence workers inspect the damage after an apartment was hit during an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh in the southern suburb of Beirut, Sunday Nov. 23, 2025. (Credit: Bilal Hussein/AP.)

Days before papal visit to Lebanon, Israel kills senior Hezbollah official in Beirut strike

  • Nov 24
  • Fadi Tawil, 
    Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press
Smoke rises from scorched cars in a scrapyard that was set ablaze the night before by who local residents alleged were Israeli settlers in the town of Huwara near the West Bank city of Nablus, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (Credit: Nasser Nasser/AP.)

Netanyahu convenes cabinet on settler violence in the West Bank that continues unabated

  • Nov 22
  • Julia Frankel, 
    Associated Press
Two girls sit next to their drying laundry in a gutted apartment building in Gaza City, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

Cardinal says situation on the ground hasn’t changed in Gaza

  • Nov 21
  • Crux Staff
People mourn at the grave of Hadar Goldin an Israeli soldier killed in Gaza in 2014 and whose body had been held there until it was released Sunday, during his funeral in Kfar Saba, Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. (Credit: Abir Sultan/Pool via AP.)

Israel’s president says ‘shocking’ settler violence against Palestinians must end

  • Nov 13
  • Melanie Lidman, 
    Julia Frankel, Associated Press
Pope Leo meets with President Abbas in the Vatican on Nov. 6, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo meets Palestinian President Abbas, discuss urgent need for Gaza aid, two-state solution

  • Nov 6
  • Associated Press
Archbishop Jacques Mourad (Credit: ACN.)

Archbishop says Church is ‘dying’ in Syria

  • Oct 30
  • Crux Staff
Egyptian Red Crecent members monitor trucks carrying humanitarian aids as they enter the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, following an agreement between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Credit: Mohamed Arafat/AP.)

Christian leaders in Holy Land praise peace deal in Gaza

  • Oct 15
  • Charles Collins

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In Iznik, Pope Leo issues call for unity in world marred by war

  • Nov 28
  • Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV to call for Christian unity at site where Nicaean Creed established

  • Nov 28
  • Associated Press

Pope offers boost to pastors of Turkey’s small Catholic flock

  • Nov 28
  • Elise Ann Allen

Nigeria’s president declares emergency and beefs up forces following abductions

  • Nov 27
  • Grace Ekpu, 
    Associated Press