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Rescue workers search through the rubble of a damaged building for survivors following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV comforts 13 priests from southern Lebanon with a surprise video call from Rome

May 7
Bassem Mroue

Gunmen fire their weapons as 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.)

Melkite Catholic bishops express concern over Israeli demolitions in southern Lebanon

May 5
Bassem Mroue

Israeli airstrikes kill 7 in southern Lebanon as a Catholic convent is bulldozed

May 3
Bassem Mroue

A view of a building damaged in an Israeli airstrike, in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Monday, March 16, 2026. (Credit: Bilal Hussein/AP.)

Israel steps up campaign in Lebanon; Iran hits near Church of the Holy Sepulcher

Mar 17
Bassem Mroue,
Jamey Keaten, Samy Magdy

Pope Leo XIV arrives in Beirut in Lebanon, Nov. 30, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo XIV’s visit highlights Christian resilience in Lebanon despite regional turmoil

Dec 1, 2025
Bassem Mroue,
Associated Press

Bahrain’s Shiites hope pope raises human rights during visit

Nov 2, 2022
Bassem Mroue,
Jon Gambrell, Mariam Fam

Lebanon says Pope Francis will visit crisis-torn country in June

Apr 5, 2022
Bassem Mroue

The judge leading Beirut blast probe: Discreet and defiant

Oct 26, 2021
Sarah El Deeb,
Bassem Mroue

Hezbollah hammered with criticism amid Lebanon’s crises

Sep 1, 2021
Bassem Mroue

Israeli settlers creating ‘climate of fear’ for West Bank Christians

Aug 11
Crux Now Staff

Pope’s 2027 Peace Day message to focus on ‘disarming technology’

Aug 11
Christopher R. Altieri

Pope sends condolences to quake-stricken Colombia

Aug 11
Crux Now Staff

British bishop calls new PM to bat for jailed Catholic Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai

Aug 11
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Israeli settlers creating ‘climate of fear’ for West Bank Christians

Israeli settlers creating ‘climate of fear’ for West Bank Christians

Aug 11
Crux Now Staff

British bishop calls new PM to bat for jailed Catholic Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai

Aug 11
Fionn Shiner

Pope’s 2027 Peace Day message to focus on ‘disarming technology’

Aug 11
Christopher R. Altieri

Women and children who were rescued after being held in a forest after they were abducted from the Woro community by gunmen in February receive medical attention at a hospital Ilorin, Nigeria, on Aug. 7, 2026. (Credit: Abubakar Khadijak/AP.)

‘We saw death and suffering’: Dozens of Nigerians freed after 6 months in jihadi captivity

Aug 10
Pelumi Salako