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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

A locked door and empty stairs leading to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, closed to visitors amid heightened security during the war with Iran, Friday, March 27, 2026. (Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP.)

Jerusalem heads into a subdued Passover and Easter under the shadow of the Iran war

Mar 29
Melanie Lidman,
Associated Press

A member of Syria's Internal Security Forces sits on a vehicle parked outside a church in the predominantly Christian town of Al-Suqaylabiyah, west of Hama, Syria, Saturday, March 28, 2026, following overnight violence. (Credit: Omar Albam/AP.)

Sectarian attacks rock a Christian town in Syria after a dispute

Mar 28
Omar Albam,
Associated Press

Israeli soldiers atop an APC in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (Credit: Ariel Schalit/AP.)

Lebanese Christians fear another occupation as Israel threatens to use Gaza tactics in the south

Mar 26
Kareem Chehayeb,
Julia Frankel

The Old City of Jerusalem in the Holy Land. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Cardinal Pizzaballa says ongoing Middle East conflict stopping regular celebration of Holy Week in Jerusalem

Mar 23
Crux Now Staff

A man holds a sign reading in Arabic "No to dividing Damascus neighborhoods along sectarian lines" in a demonstration against new restrictions limiting alcohol sales mainly to Christian neighborhoods in Damascus, Syria, on March 22, 2026. (Credit: Omar Sanadiki/AP.)

Syrian authorities’ new limits on alcohol sales in Damascus spark backlash

Mar 23
Omar Sanadiki

People gather near a building destroyed in an Israeli strike in the village of Bednayel in eastern Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. (Credit: Bilal Hussein/AP.)

‘Our presence is our mission’: Redemptorists from India remain in war-weary Lebanon

Mar 19
Nirmala Carvalho